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