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» Immigration Officer: Welcome to Earwax World, mistermerrick

Enkar: F11

mistermerrick: (to Olivetree) Hey, we're in the hq building

Olivetree: hi

Olivetree: I can hear you all

Olivetree: I can't remember how to activate voice

Enkar: Press F11 key to talk

Olivetree: I'm near the water where I left you all last time

Enkar: release it when done

EmiliaV: Good morning I think I lost sound again

Sitearm: hello emilia

Sitearm: i can hear you

Sitearm: can ollive hear

Sitearm: yes I hear it with mic OFF :)

Enkar: I keep forgetting that...sorry

EmiliaV: Nothing playing for me

Olivetree: nothing yet

Enkar: still nothing?

mistermerrick: So if you have your mic on you won't hear video but if you turn voice chat offf you will!

Enkar: yes

Sitearm: make sure the "Talk / Hands Free

mistermerrick: Just lost audion again

Sitearm: button is GREEN

EmiliaV: Ok got it

Sitearm: I still hear

mistermerrick: Anyone have audio? I don't

Enkar: I hear it

Sitearm: make sure your Talk Hands Free button is GREEN scott

Olivetree: my voice is off but I still can't hear nor see anything

Enkar: it is...

Sitearm: the other scott Enkar lol

Sitearm: should we watch on our browsers instead perhaps?

mistermerrick: Yeah I'm seeing but not hearing. Yes we can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-KfKxCaDVA

mistermerrick: I will count down in chat.

Sitearm: okie dokie - restarting in external browser

mistermerrick: Posted in chat

mistermerrick: Great, displays in AW browser immediately

mistermerrick: Starting now

mistermerrick: :)

Olivetree: I have the Youtube open now

Olivetree: ok

EmiliaV: got it

mistermerrick: We can chat in here if you have comments. I resized the browser so it fits here and can ctrl-alt to switch between windows, or resize the AW viewer window too so I can see both :)

» Operator: You have a telegram.

Telegram to Enkar, sent Fri May 22, 2020 4:19 PM:

Hey! I'm at the ISTE space in Earwax, relearning how to add media to an object. I'd love to get back up to speed this weekend toward moving our next 2 week session of http://bit.ly/istevented here! I'll be on and off this weekend. Mainly we need a presentation tool that can show a TEDTalk video from either youtube or TED. Thanks for reaching out!

Telegram to Enkar, sent Fri May 22, 2020 4:19 PM:

Hey! I'm at the ISTE space in Earwax, relearning how to add media to an object. I'd love to get back up to speed this weekend toward moving our next 2 week session of http://bit.ly/istevented here! I'll be on and off this weekend. Mainly we need a presentation tool that can show a TEDTalk video from either youtube or TED. Thanks for reaching out!

Telegram from Enkar, sent just now:

I will set the links up before next week for all to see and then edit the data so when individual users click the button, it will come up in the AW browser as it is right now.

mistermerrick: Got yr telegram-- great, all good. :)

Enkar: ;-)

mistermerrick: This is, as has often been our experience, eerily topical.

mistermerrick: ...in context of BLM

mistermerrick: I have both viewers up side by side by resizing the windows :)

Olivetree: which university he went to?

mistermerrick: Swarthmore

EmiliaV: Yes, we are only realizing too well how leadership affects us all, even those of us with a certain level of privilege.

Enkar: The last 30 minutes of Morning Joe on MSNBC ran The Lincoln Project's new advert about the confederate flag...

Olivetree: ah where is that?

mistermerrick: https://www.swarthmore.edu/

Olivetree: thank you

Enkar: pre-midlife crisis LOL

mistermerrick: haha

mistermerrick: I'm in my post-midlife crisis

Olivetree: :D

Enkar: me too -_-

mistermerrick: Chills

mistermerrick: It doesn't matter what the system. Sadly, human greed seems to always eventually corrupt it.

mistermerrick: "a stronger sense of entitlement than a sense of responsibility"

EmiliaV: Entitlement vs. responsibility is very much the issue for our college population

EmiliaV: Just calling a college a liberal arts institution is not enough; the curriculum must truly lead to a liberal arts education.

mistermerrick: thumbs up now "I am thinking now" should be the ultimate goal of all education.

EmiliaV: Community service keeps students in touch with reality

mistermerrick: I am all for putting women in charge.

mistermerrick: but selectively. we have in Tennessee a woman Senator who's the devil incarnate...

Olivetree: oh no :(

Sitearm: finished the video

EmiliaV: Who? Tennessee is a bit of the outer limits from the perspective of NY

mistermerrick: Finished here as well.

Enkar: me too

EmiliaV: finished

mistermerrick: Hitting pause in my browser and heading to voice.

Olivetree: The important thing he mentioned , ethics make the most difference.. Corporate life , the drive to achieve and win can corrupt

Enkar: You can close that floating browser window

EmiliaV: How?

Enkar: click the X in the upper rigyt corner

EmiliaV: I do not see an X

Enkar: Press F12 key to stand up

EmiliaV: yes

mistermerrick: V

mistermerrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYHqfk0X2A

Olivetree: I am ready

mistermerrick: Everyone is excited about the intro "I teach chemistry" comment

mistermerrick: These days it is all about "blended instruction"

mistermerrick: Wow that's big.

Olivetree: a friend of the Good Doctor

mistermerrick: Three rules of lesson planning:

Olivetree: yes I love curiosity :D

mistermerrick: 1. Curiosity comes first

mistermerrick: 2. Embrace the mess

mistermerrick: 3. Practice reflection

EmiliaV: Students are not always receptive of trial and error or messiness. They often want the security of structure.

mistermerrick: This guy would argue it should be denied them, lol

Sitearm: cultivators of curiosity

Olivetree: I think we can give them moments of both, until they start enjoying the messiness :)

Sitearm: finished

EmiliaV: Done

mistermerrick: True.

mistermerrick: Some people, and children are people too, just don't want to do the work.

Sitearm: .

Sitearm: "What Machiavelli said about the ruler applies also to teachers. It is best to be loved and feared, but far better to be feared and not loved than to be loved and not feared." LE Modesitt

Sitearm: .

mistermerrick: Not everything being messy or everything being dissemination of information

Sitearm: maybe it is two 80 20 rules laid back to back - 20-0-20 :)

» Operator: You have a telegram.

mistermerrick: @sitearm lol

Telegram from Enkar, sent just now:

I changed all the rest of the video signs down below. Next week, just right-click the sign you want then Copy the link posted at the bottom of the Action boxes. Then you can Paste the link into chat and it should play for everyone consistently if they each click the link in chat.