Chat log 041020

[07:46] VirtualWorx Visitor Manager Deluxe 1.53: Hello Scottmerrick Oh, welcome to ISTE VENetwork!

[07:49] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Hi Olive!

[07:49] OliveTree Lighthouse: hi Scott :)

[07:50] OliveTree Lighthouse: good morning

[07:50] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Hey Zapa, come join us by 10 after if you wish. first video will start then.

[07:50] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Good evening ㋡

[07:51] OliveTree Lighthouse: I have to go afk .. need to finish something ,, :) brb

[07:51] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): ㋡

[07:53] Zapa Sandalwood: Hello

[07:54] Zapa Sandalwood: Have not been here in a long time

[07:54] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Well welcome

[07:54] Zapa Sandalwood: Scott Merry'O turned me into this changing

[07:54] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): If you scroll down on the main screen in the middle you can read how it goes for this hour

[07:55] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): ?

[07:55] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Don't understand what that means.

[07:57] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): afk a moment. please explain that last?

[07:57] Zapa Sandalwood: Hello

[07:58] Zapa Sandalwood: Scott Merrick posted a notice on the ISTE connect

[07:58] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Well, welcome. That's me ㋡

[07:59] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): This is our ISTE Headquarters in Second Life. We are the Virtual Environments Network. Thank you for being brave and getting into Second Life!

[07:59] Zapa Sandalwood: I have been a friend for a long time I had been in Second Life since about 10 or more years. Last few years I had come to an empty world and stopped comming about a year ago

[07:59] Dae Miami: hi everyone

[08:00] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Hey Dae!

[08:00] Dae Miami: hi zapa

[08:00] Dae Miami: which empty world?

[08:00] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): We are just getting started. We

[08:00] Dae Miami: i am on a pc that does not do voice well

[08:00] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): will chat for a few minutes. That's okay Dae, we are fully in chat for this event.

[08:00] Dae Miami: thanks

[08:00] Dae Miami: this pc is set up for VR

[08:01] Dae Miami: and I don't have the headset hooked up

[08:01] Dae Miami: but I should be able to see and hear the video

[08:01] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): That's text chat, Dae

[08:01] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Yes, in an external browser if you need to ㋡

[08:01] Dae Miami: oh we are not watching a ted talk video?

[08:02] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Zapa come sit with us if you wish. We will chat for a bit, then one of us will randomly pick a TED video to watch.

[08:02] Dae Miami: ok

[08:02] OliveTree Lighthouse: back

[08:02] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Yay.

[08:02] SL Timer: Select...

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[08:02] Dae Miami: Hi Olive

[08:02] SL Timer: Ready.

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[08:03] OliveTree Lighthouse: hi Dae

[08:03] Zapa Sandalwood: My controls are not as smooth as they use dto be. Ha!\

[08:03] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): These ampitheatre steps are seats. You can just right click anywhere and choose sit here

[08:04] Dae Miami: nicde

[08:04] Dae Miami: nice

[08:04] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Grab some popcorn if you want, too.

[08:04] [Second Life: POPCORN MACHINE owned by Scottmerrick Oh gave you 'POPCORN' ( EduIsland 9 (21,117,25) ).]

[08:04] Dae Miami: we need to get more in rl

[08:04] POPCORN : ummm, yummy hot buttered popcorn...

[08:04] Dae Miami: I think we are out

[08:04] OliveTree Lighthouse: you'll get used to them again Zapa :)

[08:05] jamesmccrary: Yo!

[08:05] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Hey, brother James

[08:05] OliveTree Lighthouse: hi James

[08:05] jamesmccrary: How goes it?

[08:05] jamesmccrary: Hey, Olive!

[08:05] Zapa Sandalwood: By the way this is Pablo Zatz

[08:05] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Well, it's a school holiday here, otherwise known these days as "day"

[08:06] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Oh Hi, Pablo!

[08:06] Dae Miami: wahoo 119/74 for my blood pressure in rl I can have popcorn with salt!

[08:06] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Where are you geolocated? I'm in Tennessee, in Nashville

[08:06] jamesmccrary: Yup. I went ahead and blocked my calendar for today through the end of next week on my Calendly. I had one sneak in for 11 CST today, though.

[08:06] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Yay Dae

[08:06] jamesmccrary: In between Baton Rouge and New Orleans!

[08:07] OliveTree Lighthouse: Cairo, Egypt

[08:07] Zapa Sandalwood: In New York we are in lock down. All days are the same

[08:08] OliveTree Lighthouse: this is most of the vids w watched if anyone likes to discuss them or annotate them

[08:08] jamesmccrary: We are locked down as well...but Louisianans have a hard time following rules and not hangin out with each other. Out numbers have yet to stop climbing at all.

[08:08] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Same here, though my wife's takeout/delivery business is booming and I'm helping over there some. Making a delivery today ㋡

[08:08] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Hi Andromeda!

[08:08] Andromeda (pegi61): Hi everyone :-)

[08:08] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): We're about to pick our first video.

[08:08] OliveTree Lighthouse: https://www.vialogues.com/

[08:08] Dae Miami: Hi Andromeda

[08:08] Dae Miami: welcomoe

[08:08] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): James you want to do the honors?

[08:08] Dae Miami: welcome

[08:08] OliveTree Lighthouse: hmmm this is the main page :/

[08:09] jamesmccrary: Let's let someone else spin it!

[08:09] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Okay, volunteer?

[08:09] Dae Miami: I grew up near Cairo

[08:09] Dae Miami: Cairo New York I think we pronounced it differently

[08:09] jamesmccrary: Or I can if no one wants to

[08:09] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): I grew up near Paris

[08:09] Dae Miami: go for it James

[08:09] Dae Miami: nice

[08:09] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Tennessee

[08:09] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Go for it James

[08:09] Dae Miami: This is so confusing

[08:10] Dae Miami: url please

[08:10] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): James is clicking to spin the random picker and he

[08:10] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): will paste the url into chat.

[08:10] Dae Miami: ok

[08:10] Dae Miami whispers: by the way,

[08:10] Dae Miami: Andromeda worked with one of my students on a collaborative project

[08:10] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Everyone's display works locally so I will put the url into the main display, cue it up past ads and pause

[08:10] Dae Miami: she is amazing

[08:10] OliveTree Lighthouse: you grew up near Paris USA?

[08:11] OliveTree Lighthouse: :)

[08:11] jamesmccrary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHViFc0ekw

[08:11] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): haha yes

[08:11] Andromeda (pegi61): sorry, was afk

[08:11] OliveTree Lighthouse: hi Andromeda :)

[08:11] Andromeda (pegi61): Hi :-)

[08:11] Dae Miami: i was just bragging about how awesome you are andromeda

[08:12] OliveTree Lighthouse: ads gone and paused

[08:12] OliveTree Lighthouse: ready

[08:12] Andromeda (pegi61): ohh, lol

[08:12] Dae Miami: me too

[08:12] Andromeda (pegi61): Aren't we all?

[08:12] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Okay say ready when you are ready and I'll hit the 10 secon timer. When it buzzes hit play and we'll be synced

[08:12] jamesmccrary: ready

[08:12] Andromeda (pegi61): ready

[08:12] Dae Miami: ready

[08:12] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): This is only 2 minutes long.

[08:12] Dae Miami: oh a quickie

[08:12] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Okay hitting timer

[08:12] SL Timer: Timer Ended

[08:12] OliveTree Lighthouse: oh I see 4

[08:13] jamesmccrary: me too

[08:13] Dae Miami: spinning the truth i have video and sound

[08:13] Dae Miami: ads

[08:13] Dae Miami: ok playing ted talk

[08:14] Andromeda (pegi61): yes, runs

[08:14] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Love this style

[08:15] Dae Miami: project based learning

[08:15] Dae Miami: cool

[08:15] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Oh cool, it's continuing

[08:15] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Tinkering school

[08:17] Andromeda (pegi61): Cool

[08:17] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): very

[08:17] OliveTree Lighthouse: all schools should be at least 50 tinkering :)

[08:18] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): haha decoration

[08:18] Dae Miami: are they in Egypt?

[08:18] OliveTree Lighthouse: I have no idea

[08:18] Dae Miami: we are starting to do project based learning like that

[08:18] jamesmccrary: Haha...5 dangerous things you should let your children do...love that

[08:18] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): what makes you say that

[08:18] OliveTree Lighthouse: I have to check

[08:18] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Dae

[08:18] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Nice boats

[08:18] Dae Miami: I did it with my brother and dad when we were young on saturday mornings

[08:18] Dae Miami: great fun

[08:18] Dae Miami: but how do you scale it up

[08:19] Dae Miami: who pays for the materials

[08:19] Dae Miami: how do you store the stuff?

[08:19] OliveTree Lighthouse: even in the corporate world , adults are completely different when they are learning by doing things

[08:19] Dae Miami: and most importantly...how do you design multiple choice tests on tinkering?

[08:19] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Done, hahaha Dae

[08:19] OliveTree Lighthouse: lol

[08:20] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): I need to do more tinkering in my spare time, lol

[08:20] Andromeda (pegi61): isn't the result importing only?

[08:20] Dae Miami: my son and I had a great tinkering

[08:20] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Okay Olive you want to do the next spin?

[08:20] Dae Miami: we build an amazing computer lab as a tree house

[08:20] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): I'll get it set up while ya'll continue to chat

[08:21] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Do youave pics, Dae? Love to see them if you do.

[08:21] Dae Miami: of the computer lab treenouse

[08:21] Dae Miami: it is in my backyard I can take pics

[08:21] Dae Miami: brb

[08:21] Dae Miami: have to upload them to sl

[08:22] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): haha great

[08:22] Dae Miami: and get a ladder to climb up in it

[08:22] Andromeda (pegi61): Linden earns again ;-)

[08:22] Dae Miami: have not used it in years since son moved out

[08:22] OliveTree Lighthouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

[08:23] jamesmccrary: Love Ken!

[08:23] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Oh boy the first Sir Ken!

[08:23] SL Timer: Select...

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[08:23] SL Timer: Ready.

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[08:23] OliveTree Lighthouse: ready

[08:23] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): I'm ready to countdown when everyone is ready.

[08:23] jamesmccrary: ready

[08:24] Andromeda (pegi61): it is already running for me?

[08:24] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): This one has had over 18 million views.

[08:24] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Pause Andromeda so we can catch up!

[08:24] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Everyone ready?

[08:24] OliveTree Lighthouse: we pause and wait for th buzzeer

[08:24] OliveTree Lighthouse: ready

[08:24] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): yup

[08:24] Andromeda (pegi61): ok

[08:24] OliveTree Lighthouse: my e key is driving me crazy

[08:24] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): hahahaha

[08:25] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Okay I'm a gonna hit the countdown

[08:25] Dae Miami: picture of treehouse will be here soon

[08:25] Dae Miami: got to get it to email

[08:25] SL Timer: Timer Ended

[08:25] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Playing

[08:25] Zapa Sandalwood: I am still waiting for some one to scream. Is there a teacher in the house. We have a case of ignorance.

[08:25] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Ah BM@

[08:26] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): He's so young in this one!

[08:29] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): He's a natural born stand-up comic

[08:29] Dae Miami: i don't know if this picture is the best

[08:29] Dae Miami: i can try another one

[08:29] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): hahahaha

[08:29] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): All good Dae.

[08:30] OliveTree Lighthouse: very nice tree house Dae and very different

[08:31] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): lol @ "Frank sent this"

[08:31] jamesmccrary: Hahaha...Frank!

[08:31] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Niiiiiice, Dae

[08:32] jamesmccrary: Yup, we def grow out of it...not into it.

[08:32] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): 13 yeares ago, this was

[08:32] OliveTree Lighthouse: lol

[08:33] Dae Miami: this treehouse picture I think is better

[08:33] Dae Miami: less shrubs

[08:33] jamesmccrary: And if we continue to use the current grading system and placing the amount of value we do on standardized testing, we cant say we value making mistakes.

[08:33] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Love the Shakespeare riff

[08:33] Dae Miami: yes

[08:34] OliveTree Lighthouse: hahaha

[08:34] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): my late mom-in-law wrote 5 scholarly books re Shakespeare and headed the International Shakespeare Ass'n, the only American ever to do so

[08:34] OliveTree Lighthouse: aww that's harsh :) the poor girl

[08:34] Dae Miami: i have seen this before

[08:34] Dae Miami: good comments

[08:34] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): "I think math is important but so is dance."

[08:35] Dae Miami: I think dancing on sl is important lol

[08:35] Dae Miami: which involves math

[08:35] jamesmccrary: He's not wrong

[08:35] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): The whole purpose of education is to create university professors, lol

[08:35] OliveTree Lighthouse: I started a dance on Discord with Minecrafters and

[08:36] OliveTree Lighthouse: a couple of days a go we started in SL too :)

[08:36] OliveTree Lighthouse: 15 minutes of dancing together with both SL and RL avatars lol

[08:38] jamesmccrary: Yep. What happens when we have a high percentage of degree holders? Higher degrees? Academic inflation, for sure

[08:39] Dae Miami: so is my Ph.D useless

[08:39] Dae Miami: what degree is next?

[08:39] jamesmccrary: a second Ph.D

[08:39] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): (scottmerrick.oh): "grown men and women writhing uncontrollabley. Off the beat.

[08:38] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): /clap

[08:38] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): at "academic inflation"

[08:39] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Look at what Kindergarteners are expected to learn in school these days.

[08:40] Dae Miami: Do you multitask andromeda

[08:40] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Been typing in Dae private iM lol

[08:40] Dae Miami: ok lets find out

[08:40] Dae Miami: how many programs do you have open now andromeda

[08:40] jamesmccrary: My thoughts are do what you love...as long as it does no intentional harm

[08:40] Dae Miami: how many chat windows do you have open now and are you checking them all? lol

[08:41] OliveTree Lighthouse: lol

[08:42] Andromeda (pegi61): i have only sl open and linguee or dict

[08:42] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): "people who had to move to think"

[08:42] Dae Miami: what is linguee and dict

[08:43] Andromeda (pegi61): translator

[08:43] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Hi Constance ㋡

[08:43] Dae Miami: ah ok

[08:43] Andromeda (pegi61): But gave it up, he is talking to fast lol

[08:43] Constance Kira: Hello

[08:43] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): We are hitting the end of the first Sir Ken Robinson video.

[08:44] Dae Miami: are you having trouble understanding him

[08:44] Dae Miami: androm

[08:44] Andromeda (pegi61): (and i found the youtube subtitles)

[08:44] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): I think it actually might be the first streaming released TEDTalk

[08:44] Andromeda (pegi61): no, it's ok

[08:44] Andromeda (pegi61): He is brilliant.

[08:45] jamesmccrary: That was a good one

[08:45] Andromeda (pegi61): yes, definitively

[08:45] Dae Miami: great talk

[08:45] Dae Miami: any comments

[08:45] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): That last quote should be in every classroom.

[08:45] Dae Miami: ?

[08:46] Dae Miami: the one about if schools disappeared society would flourish

[08:46] Dae Miami: florish?

[08:46] Constance Kira: I hate that I missed it

[08:46] Dae Miami: you can see it on you tube

[08:46] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Have to look to be accurate, but about our job being to educate their whole being and to help them see the future

[08:46] Dae Miami: true

[08:46] Andromeda (pegi61): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY -> Constance

[08:46] Constance Kira: ok, I will definitely check it out thanks

[08:47] OliveTree Lighthouse: I don't think that's right though

[08:47] jamesmccrary: I would agree. I'm gonna call that the Ken Robinson Principle.

[08:47] Dae Miami: I was talking to a teacher in Sweden today she said we have to teach kids to collaborate internationally

[08:47] Dae Miami: and she is true

[08:47] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): There is a list of all the videos we currently choose from on the schedule at http://bit.ly/istevented

[08:47] Dae Miami: what we are doing now shoulld be routine in schools

[08:47] OliveTree Lighthouse: there were all sorts of different types of schools before the industrial revolution

[08:48] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Well, Olive, unfortunately nearly half of Americans think we should shut down global collaboration.

[08:48] Dae Miami: why is there no sl for kids?

[08:48] jamesmccrary: Hey gang, im hoping off early. See yall next week?

[08:48] OliveTree Lighthouse: the school system that exists now is not good but schools can be wonderful :)

[08:48] Dae Miami: have a good Easter James

[08:48] OliveTree Lighthouse: ok

[08:48] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): There was, but LL shut it down

[08:48] OliveTree Lighthouse: thanks everyone

[08:48] Dae Miami: here is my thought

[08:48] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Thanks James, I'll be in touch. Having some issues with VirBELA

[08:48] Dae Miami: how do we do collaborations and still maintain privacy for students

[08:49] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Will chat you up later

[08:49] Dae Miami: look at the vw platforms

[08:49] Dae Miami: like sine space

[08:49] Dae Miami: they don't want anyone under 17 on them they are so scared about privacy

[08:49] Dae Miami: well somehow microsoft has minecraft up

[08:49] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Yes Dae that's a governmental law thing

[08:49] jamesmccrary: Lemme know and I can possibly move up Engage. Or we can use Open Campus in VirBELA.

[08:49] OliveTree Lighthouse: look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQpLQ2AKGLM

[08:50] Dae Miami: but is minecraft the solution for international collaboration?

[08:50] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): @James should know today

[08:50] OliveTree Lighthouse: listen to who's teaching and what he's/she's using

[08:50] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Not unless they fix the issue of Minecraft:EE network join

[08:50] jamesmccrary: International collab is going to need 6DoF manipulation to be truly scalable and applicable...

[08:50] jamesmccrary: now im going

[08:50] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Joining across different networks.

[08:51] OliveTree Lighthouse: ok bye James

[08:51] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): It's built to work on a shared network only

[08:51] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Bye Jamesie

[08:51] Dae Miami: bye james

[08:52] Dae Miami: i am going to head out

[08:52] Dae Miami: good videos

[08:52] Dae Miami: everyone have a good day

[08:52] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Ya'll I think I'm going to grab the chata and hit the road. Watch http://bit.ly homepage for an announcement prior to the event next week.

[08:52] Andromeda (pegi61): Stay safe everyone

[08:52] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): We _should_ be changing platforms

[08:52] OliveTree Lighthouse: ok see you tomorrow :)

[08:52] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): You too Andromeda

[08:52] Andromeda (pegi61): thank you for the invitation Dae

[08:52] OliveTree Lighthouse: have a great day / eevning

[08:53] Andromeda (pegi61): Great stuff, liked it

[08:53] Dae Miami: you are welcome andromeda

[08:54] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Have a good weekend, Olive. I am thankful this allowed me to meet you.

[08:54] OptoMystic (scottmerrick.oh): Hope to see you next week!

[08:54] OliveTree Lighthouse: :) you too Scott