Welcome Scuola Media
Grable at NCSU CLT: Hi Gian Carlo we see you signing on!
Scuola Media: I have a MEGA meeting. Are you at MEGA?
Grable at NCSU CLT: Hey Gian Carlo, we are so happy to hear you. Where is your picture?
Scuola Media: Can you see me?
Grable at NCSU CLT: We see you on the Lurker list. It says no video
Grable at NCSU CLT: We see you coming! Yeah!
Scuola Media: I send video
Grable at NCSU CLT: Hi there! It's great to see you!
Scott: Your video looks great.
Grable at NCSU CLT: So does yours!
Scuola Media: I'm at school with students
Grable at NCSU CLT: We have you on the projector! Why are your students not in bed!
Scuola Media: I have a meeting with MEGA. Am I in the right place?
Scott: Yes!! This is MEGA
Scott: What grade are your students?
Grable at NCSU CLT: Hello from MEGA, this is Lisa Grable.
Scuola Media: Is there Caroline, Beckey, Lisa?
Grable at NCSU CLT: Yes, I'm here!
Grable at NCSU CLT: We're all here....wharing the keyboard :-)
Scuola Media: Do you see my students?
Scott: Yes
Scott: They look very excited.
Scuola Media: I'll show my computer room
Grable at NCSU CLT: Lisa- so nice to see the students!
Grable at NCSU CLT: Lisa- we will now introduce all the MEGA people here!
Grable at NCSU CLT: Lisa- These are the people in our room! All teachers!
Grable
at NCSU CLT: Gian Carlo, This is Caroline. We are delighted to have you in our meeting...finally!! And having the students is a real plus for us. Welcome to MEGA!
Scuola Media: Thank you. I'm very delighted too.
Scuola Media: What's happening now?
Grable at NCSU CLT: Everyone will try to send a message. We are talking about how to use videoconferencing.
Scuola Media: I think it's important to exchange messages and see other people, but the link is slow
Scott: Welcome to the MEGA meeting, Gian Carlo and students. :
Charley: My mother's parents were born in Napoli. Their name was Alfano. Are there any Alfanos there?
Scuola Media: I'd like to present my students now, because they have to go to bed
Scuola Media: This is Devis
Scuola Media: This is Alessia
Ed Gerler: Welcome to our MEGA meeting, Gian Carlo and students.
Scuola Media: This is Elisa
Scuola Media: This is Marika : Four students already--all with lovely names! How many are there?
Scuola Media: This is Nicola
Beckey: Gian Carlo, would you like to meet all you folks here to see you today! This is working!
Grable at NCSU CLT: Caroline is explaining how you can teach with the video!
Scuola Media: This is Francesca
Grable at NCSU CLT: Hi Fraancesca, hi Nicola Scuola Media: This is Alberto
Beckey: How old is Francesca? Is David with You?
Grable at NCSU CLT: Hi Marika, hi Elisa, hi Alberto!
Grable at NCSU CLT: Hi Alessia, Hi Devis
Lee Moore: Hello Gian and students. I am an art teacher for kids 10-15 years of age. How old are your students? We are working on an opera about Italian Carnival. Can
you tell me your favorite things about this festival?
Scuola Media: Hi from Marco Scuola Media: Hi from Davide
MARTHA: Hi, I am Jan from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, I was waving at you a minute
ago. I like to work with alligators, do you have any animals in you school?
Grable at NCSU CLT: Hellow Marco, hellow Davide!
LAB: Hi, Marco! Did any of you write some of the poems on the web page in MidLink?
Scuola Media: This is Barbara
LAB: Hello from North Carolina. How is the weather over there?
Scuola Media: This is Sonia
Grable at NCSU CLT: Hola Sonia, hola Barbara!
Emily: It's pretty chilly! About 55 degrees Farenheit
Scuola Media: They all wrote poems
Grable at NCSU CLT: Do you like Midlink?
Scuola Media: Now it's raining :
Scuola Media: Elisa: I like MidLink and to write
Lee Moore: I am coming to wave at you . I have a funny hat and glasses. Are any of you wearing hats? I would like to see.
Scuola Media: My son Davide is at home. He has to prepare for some test
Caroline: Gian Carlo, Are any of the students the authors of your poetry?
MARTHA: Can we read some of your poems
Scuola Media: Caroline, all the students are the authors of the poems
Scuola Media: Davide near me is the author of "BIRDS"
Grable at NCSU CLT: I like birds very much I am taking pictures of birds for a
web page. We have many beautiful birds in North Carolina.
Scuola Media: Elisa wrote "Dreams"
Charley: Soccer is very popular here. Are there any soccer (futbol) lovers there?
Scuola Media: Devis wrote "Spring"
Caroline: I love the poetry *and* the art! They are both beautiful.
Lee: My students love soccer. Who did you cheer for in the World Cup?
Kelli: My son plays soccer at his elementary school. We love soccer at our house. I'll tell him we met you.
Grable at NCSU CLT: The World Cup was on TV here. We watched every day!
Kelli: We did too!
Scuola Media: Alberto and Davide play soccer. Do you know Italian soccer? :
Charley: We know about Roberto Baggio and a few others.
Kelli: My son loves Mia Hamm, she plays the same position and wears the same number (9)
Lee: What position do you play? I played right wing . What is that in Italian?
MARTHA: Where can we see your poems?
Scuola Media: Martha, you can see our poems from MidLink Magazine, our page is http://www.dinamica.it/mediarc
Scuola Media: HBK, it's ala destra
HBK: graci :
Charley: What other sports do the kids enjoy?
Grable at NCSU CLT: We have many middle schoolers here who like skateboards
Scuola Media: HBK, do you mean grazie (thank you)?
HBK: yes, thanks for the grazie....my Italian is just from hearing it . Basketball
and American football are big favorites. Our students also enjoy running and swimming.
Scuola Media: HBK, my students are 11-15. They like basketball, soccer, bike and swimming
Scuola Media: Now I'm alone. The students gone to bed :
Sr. Carlo, this is Charley. What will you and the kids eat for breakfast tomorrow morning?
Scuola Media: Who's speaking?
HBK: John - Hello Gian. I'm at
HBK's computer. We met at Exploris two years ago! We are open. All is well. We would like to connect with you at Exploris.
Scuola Media: John, I'd like to connect with you too! How can we do it?
HBK: We can start by email. My address is jgordon@exploris.org Can you please email me your address?
Beckey: Gian Carlo, this has been so wonderful for our group & the College. Your students were wonderful to
stay up late! MEGA thanks for *all* you do:-)
Grable at NCSU CLT: I'm sorry the students had to go. Thank you so much!
Scuola Media: John, my e-mail address: giavisa@tin.it
Scuola Media: Beckey, thank you too! Now the students are at home in their bed
HBK: Gian - I have it. Thank you. I will be in touch. Thank you for bringing your students in tonight to meet with us. Fantastic!
Beckey: Gian Carlo, e-mail addresses for our MEGA members are on the mega site:
Beckey: http://www.ncsu.edu/mega/
Beckey: Caroline is showing winners of Multimedia Mania
Scuola Media: Who is winner?
Beckey: This was last year's contest -- maybe you will enter in 2000?
Scuola Media: May be. Can you tell what can I do to enter?
Beckey: It's on MidLink ...
Scuola Media: I see pictures now
Scuola Media: Beckey, I can't see you
Beckey: This one was Rumplestiltskin by elementary school students.
Beckey: Lisa was working on the camera
Scuola Media: I don't understand "Rumplestiltskin"
Beckey: A folk story
Beckey: Favorite one of our children
Scuola Media: Thank you. Is it possible to receive a CD-ROM about this work?
Beckey: Caroline is getting ready to show a Middle school project. Can't
get the camera working on me -- so I"ll tell you what she's sharing
Beckey: I'll remind Caroline to send you one:-)
HBK: gian, this is lee. i asked the question about Italian Carnival. My kids are rewriting
another folk story or fairy tale called "Cinderella" that takes place during Italian Carnival in the 1700's. Can you tell me any events, food, music, or any thing special we could use?
Scuola Media: Lee, I can send you some informations and pictures about it. Can you give me your e-mail address?
Beckey: We had to darken the room so we can see the CD Rom -- Caroline said she'd send you one
HBK: sure, it is lmoore@exploris.org. i missed you there when you visited. i hope you can come again!
Scuola Media: Thank you Beckey and Caroline. Why Beckey's windows is always dark?
Grable at NCSU CLT: Caroline is explaining how nice Hyperstudio works. Some students use HS for a multimedia class.
Beckey: Camera not working -- I'll go wave to you on the other one
Scuola Media: Lee, I'd like to do it with my son David. Now he is 15
Grable at NCSU CLT: Students looked at Multimedia Mania CD to start class, but it was good for them to practice evaluating
Grable at NCSU CLT: That was Beckey on the video
Grable at NCSU CLT: Winners of the contest seem to work outside of classroom. Caroline gave more points if they created work in school.
Grable at NCSU CLT: Caroline
is now showing rubric. Points for originality, teamwork, subject, graphical design, mechanics.
Grable at NCSU CLT: Sorry Gian Carlo, we got thrown off for a moment.
Scuola Media: I saw
Grable at NCSU CLT: Next Caroline will show some new software for teaching.
Grable at NCSU CLT: Her software will not be on the Internet . It is called SAS in Schools.
Grable at NCSU CLT: The first one is called Curriculum Pathways.
Scuola Media: Hi Lisa
Grable at NCSU CLT: I'm sorry it kicked me off again!
Grable at NCSU CLT: Her software would be loaded on a server in a school
Grable at NCSU CLT: She is now talking about teaching geometry with this software
Scuola Media: I'd like to see the software
Grable at NCSU CLT: She is making a new lesson plan using word-processing software (Word)
Grable at NCSU CLT: She has a list of multimedia resources for geometry - have you tried Geometer's Sketchpad? Very fun!
Scuola Media: Is it possible to have the videocamera near to the screen?
Grable at NCSU CLT: I will try! We had to turn the lights off, that is why it is so bad!
Grable at NCSU CLT: She is now looking at poetry. Carl Sandburg
Scuola Media: I'm hearing something
Grable at NCSU CLT: Students are encouraged to write after they read authors.
Grable at NCSU CLT: Software includes info about different poetry such as haiku.
Scuola Media: Yes, and seeing the world with different ideas and thoughts
Grable at NCSU CLT: Caroline is explaining how she is testing software in schools. Maybe you can hear her.
Scuola Media: I'm hearing Caroline speaking
Grable at NCSU CLT: She has Chemistry, Spanish, Algebra, Renaissance History
Grable at NCSU CLT: Now we are learning the German alphabet.
Grable at NCSU CLT: She is not trying to replace teacher with software.
Grable at NCSU CLT: How can technology help in classroom and achieve goals?
Grable at NCSU CLT: To learn language students need to see tongue and hear how to pronounce.
Grable at NCSU CLT: regnet, rund, rottweiler
Grable at NCSU CLT: Now she will show math, visual algebra library
Beckey: I will type on Beckey's machine so people can see
Beckey: This is Lisa
Scuola Media: I'm hearing quite well, not all the words
Scuola Media: Do you have a ISDN?
Grable at NCSU CLT: We have T1 Line
Grable at NCSU CLT: Now she is showing a density lesson
Grable at NCSU CLT: It is a simulation of dropping cubes in a graduated cylinder.
Grable at NCSU CLT: You can visit sas website to find out more about the software
Grable at NCSU CLT: www.sasinschool.com/index.shtml
Scuola Media: Thank you. I'll visit it
Grable at NCSU CLT: This software works by installing on school server. Then all students can use.
Grable at NCSU CLT: Caroline says thank you for listening to her new software product.
Scuola Media: Thank her for her lesson!
Grable at NCSU CLT: teachers are now talking and having refreshments. Now I have the lights on!
Grable at NCSU CLT: Can you see Caroline?
Scuola Media: Quite bad
Grable at NCSU CLT: Very cheap camera!
Scuola Media: Lisa. can you see me?
Grable at NCSU CLT: No I cannot see you at all! Maybe I should click something?
Grable at NCSU CLT: It says I am receiving 2.5% of your video
Scuola Media: I'm sending video
Scuola Media: Can you hear me?
Grable at NCSU CLT: Beckey, back -- great meeting?
Grable at NCSU CLT: Thank you so much for coming, GC!
Scuola Media: Thank you very much to all. Now I have to go to home. It's 11:20 pm. I hope we can meet again.
Grable at NCSU CLT: Are you there? We're breaking up the meeting now, and I have to go. I'll write you some
e-mail tonight.
Grable at NCSU CLT: Sleep well!
Scuola Media: I see you Caroline
Scuola Media: and Beckey, I think
Grable at NCSU CLT:
Joanne aat NCSU CLT: My daughter is in Florence and is going to
Verona this weekend to see my cousin's son play basketball. She loves your country and is hoping to come back and teach English.
Scuola Media: Bye
Scuola Media: I'd like to see you all in Italy
MARTHA: lisa- thank you so much, we enjoyed you today
Grable at NCSU CLT: Goodbye
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