Immigration Officer: Welcome to the AWEDU
Immigration Officer: Welcome to CyBergen
"freddan": ja simmde lite bara
"zebra": ska vi gå in?
"nicole": ja
"nicole": här är hall-of-fame
"zebra": välkommen
"Joey": Hello
HeKla: ok..
"nicole": ursäkta, har ninågot emot att vi kör upp er på storbildskärm
"Joey": Hi
"nicole": hi Joey
"Joey": Hi what are you doing here. Are you having class?
cybergen8: nei Nicole, det er helt i orden
cybergen8: we are having an informal meeting
"nicole": well, we are going to present active worlds for our classmates in about five min
cybergen8: testing the combination of webcam and AW
"nicole": thanks cybergen8
cybergen8: do you have a wecam there Nicole?
HeKla: (to cybergen5) Hello Joana, lot of people around
"Joey": I see. Hi cybergen8.
"nicole": no, I have not :(
"Joey": what 's webcam?
cybergen8: you see - this is a college for the deaf, so we intend to connect to Netmeeting with webcam
cybergen8: then our students can communicate i sign language
"nicole": cybergen8: are you a student or a teacher?
cybergen8: if you click this picture
cybergen8: teacher
cybergen8: if you click
cybergen8: the picture I am watching now
"nicole": thats intresting
"Joey": the user of this world is the deaf?
cybergen8: yes
"Joey": nicole, are you a teacher?
cybergen8: deaf students in Bergen, Norway
cybergen8: but we plan to invite students from other countries
"Joey": interesting. So what do they learn???
"nicole": how old are the students?
cybergen8: we have a partner school in Ørebro, Sweden
cybergen8: 16-20
cybergen8: and in Finland
cybergen8: England
cybergen8: Denmark
cybergen8: France
cybergen8: Spain
cybergen8: and soon Portugal, right cybergen5?
"nicole": okey, we are from IT-university in Gothenburg,
cybergen8: (she is from Portugal...)
cybergen8: we plan to create a world for deaf students fro lots of countries here
"Joey": Is it an international exchange?
"nicole": thats a good thought
"Joey": i agree.
cybergen8: there will be links to videos + online webcam communication
cybergen8: this is part of a Norwegian broadband project
"Joey": so visual stimulation is important. Right???
"nicole": :) we are studding ICT- and learning, and this is a good project to show the others
cybergen8: coordinated by the Bergen university College
cybergen8: yes visual communicatio is important
"Joey": but what do they learn?
cybergen8: all written languaages are foreign languages to our students (even Norwegian)
"Joey": written communication or what?
"nicole": Joey: please come in here
"Joey": you mean written English through online chat?
cybergen8: they learn ordinary subjects
"Joey": lie ???
"nicole": why not norwegian???
cybergen8: well...online chat is in written language - but by using webcam we can communicate visually as well
"Joey": sorry, like???
cybergen8: you can read more about our studies over here
cybergen8: follow me
"Joey": ok
cybergen8: if you click the sign
cybergen8: you can read more about the courses
"nicole": I just get a pop -up saying ehhh...velkommen
cybergen8: are we on a large screen in Gøteborg now?????
"nicole": I don't know
cybergen8: up.....sorry the webpage is down
cybergen8: Cybergen5 is working on it right now, so it might fall out now and then
cybergen8: let's try the mecanics dept.
cybergen8: follow me
cybergen8: yep
cybergen8: it is woring
cybergen8: k
cybergen8: but here you must click the picture
cybergen8: we have 5 different studies/courses that will be presented here
cybergen8: but we plan to have students exhibitions in some of the rooms near the entrance
cybergen8: there deaf students from different countries will meet and do projects together
"Joey": what's the project about?
"Joey": I see a photo.
cybergen8: It is about deaf cultures, education for the deaf and sign languages i different European countries
cybergen8: We have 2 international projects - one NordPlus (Nordic) and one Comenius (European)
"Joey": i see. so they should have to communicate in a written form, right?
"Joey": Comenius? River? Town?
cybergen8: we will integrate these projects into the Norwegian broadband project - the aim is to evaluate different possibilities for communication via digital video and webcam
cybergen8: the RiverTown project is not ours - we have nothing to do with that, you can see it in the world Fantasia