PLENARY WITH PROFS. CURRAN AND RUSCHE

In attendance:

Stuart Curran (Curran)
Harry Rusche (Rusche)

Susan Anderson (SusanA)
Robert Anderson (CastroAlves)
Ron Broglio (bro)
Robert Corbett (RobertC)
Andreas Dieberger (Juggler--here represented as You)
Michael Lapace-Sinatra (MichaelO)
Mark Ledden (Mark)
Carole Meyers (Carole)
Laura Runge (LauraR)
Samantha Webb (SamantaW)

guest (Jane
pink guest

This log is through Juggler's eyes.


bro says, "had many folks visit the moo lately?" 
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You [to bro]: you can always check using {@lastlog} 

Mark says, "there's a command that tells you- there it is" 

Carole [to bro]: we've had a steady trickle--check out {@lastlog} 

bro says, "Yes. Quite a crowd."

Mark says, "the home page has had a lot of action recently as well" 


You say, "btw: I would like to take the opportunity for three cheers to 
our server hardware! Our moo srever now runds for over three weeks 
stright and it was not necessary to stop the server for a single time in 
that period - look at {@uptime}"

Mark says, "Of course, the thing is, you need a certain critical mass to 
make a moo work"

@uptime
The server has been up for 25 days, 17 hours, 46 minutes, and 30 seconds. 


Carole says, " yes--the servers have been admirable (yea, mac!)" 

Rusche says, "If I check "lastlog," will it take me out of the MOO? I am 
afraid to move for fear I will get lost in the labyrinths of this damned 
system! I'm an old dog, and new tricks do not come easily." 

bro looks for bones.

You [to Rusche]: don't worry - It just gives you a lot of output 

Carole says, " Yes, Liu made the observation that we really don't have 
enough time in 3 weeks to get this up and running." 

You [to Rusche]: but you will not get moved 

Mark says, "just type "look" if you get disoriented" 

Carole says, " Harry, here's a map"

Carole points out a Web page with the title 'Netscape: A map of emoryMOO' 
http://www.gatech.edu/lcc/idt/Faculty/andreas_dieberger/temporary/emoryMO
O_m ap.html

Carole says, " Now, we just need a cgi script to put little blobs for 
people. :)"

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Mark says, "Interesting how the shape imposed itself on our plans" 
Carole says, " Speaking of which, how do you all feel about Java?" 

Mark says, "I'm still unclear about what java is" 
 

You say, " I bought a Java book - but I didnt have time to look at it :)" 

`mark its a prgramming language

You [to Mark]: its a prgramming language 

Rusche says, "I just looked at the logins. Apparently a lot of people do 
know how to use the system!"

Carole says, " java permits animations--and right it seems to me that 
it's largelyu used to make anoying little figures dance across your 
screen." 

You [to Mark]: the idea is that you have applications that can be run on 
any type of machine

You [to Mark]: its system independent like html. The client (netscape or 
whatever) determines how it has to run

Mark says, "so the os platform makes no difference?" 


You [to Mark]: no. Ideally we would have a java version of juggler and 
then every computer on the net could use it - no matter if win, mac, sgi, 
... 
Mark goes southwest.


Carole says, " let's head over to the plenary room--Harry, if you pull 
down the GoTo menu in Juggler, and select Sessions and then Plenary Room, 
you'll be taken there. Or just {join Carole}"

Rusche says, "'Carole, don't get cranky! A lot of people (but not 
including me) like little dogs, balls, etc. running across the screen. I 
saw an icon the other day that kept folding a piece of paper and stuffing 
it into an envelop (ad naseum) where you clicked to send a message." 

Carole goes southwest.

Rusche says, "correction: nauseum"

You say, "why do they flee us...?"

You [to Rusche]: well I think such stuff would be better done in 
shockwave `rusche java is overkill for that

You [to Rusche]: java is overkill for that 

bro goes southwest.

@who
Name	Location	Connected Idle Time Doing/Idle
----	--------	--------- --------- ----------
Juggler	Sunday Sessions	51 minutes a second
RobertC	Entrance	4 minutes 10 seconds
Carole	Plenary room	24 minutes 10 seconds
bro	Plenary room	15 minutes 14 seconds
SusanA	Harry Rusche Keynote 44 minutes 28 seconds
Mark	Entrance	57 minutes 33 seconds
Rusche	Sunday Sessions	an hour	a minute
A guest	Sunday Sessions	12 minutes 5 minutes

Total: 8 people, 7 of whom have been active recently. The guest goes 
southwest.

You [to Rusche]: shockwave essentially allows Macromedia director movies 
to play embedded in a

look
The Sunday Sessions
You are stand east of the fountain in the conference atrium. A large door 
leads to the [panels]. {Read sign} if you want to find out which panels 
are on sunday. The circular walkway leads on to the [saturday] sessions 
and to the [center]. On the other side of the fountain you see the 
entrance to the [friday] sessions.

You see a Sunday session overview sign here. Rusche is here, distracted.

You say, "I think they all walk into the plenary room" 
.
You say, "let's join them..."

@who
Name	Location	Connected Idle Time Doing/Idle
----	--------	--------- --------- ----------
Juggler	Sunday Sessions	52 minutes 0 seconds
Mark	Entrance	58 minutes 5 seconds
RobertC	Keynotes	5 minutes 15 seconds
bro	Plenary room	16 minutes 21 seconds
A guest	Plenary room	13 minutes 46 seconds
Carole	Plenary room	25 minutes 60 seconds
SusanA	Harry Rusche Keynote 45 minutes a minute
Rusche	Sunday Sessions	an hour	a minute

Total: 8 people, all of whom have been active recently. join bro

The Center
You see a Panel overview sign, a Tequila Sunrise, and an albatross here. 
The Plenary Room
This is the plenary meeting room. Conference participants come together 
in this room for moderated discussions. One person is the moderator. You 
can become moderator using the command {moderate} and you can resign 
using {unmoderate}.
What does the moderator do? In this room only a limited number of people 
can talk at the same time. In order to say or emote something use the 
command {request} and the room will tell you when it is your turn to 
speak. Stop talking using {yield}. If you talk too long the moderator can 
force you to yield using {yield <playername>}. To see who is currently 
speaking use {speakers}. To see who is waiting to speak use {waiting}. 
BTW: You can whisper or page without having to request permission.
A door leads [out] to the conference center in the [east]. 

bro is here. Carole and a guest are distracted. You have arrived.

Carole [to bro]: So, Ron, you've used MOOs with undergrads? 


bro says, "I'm working on that. Next semester I'm teaching Romanticism in 
a computer class."

bro says, "So far, I've toured some folks around and a few undergrads 
like it." 

bro says, "It raises questions about the architecture of space and about 
Romantic images/objects."

Carole says, " I'd like to begin using virtual environments with my tech 
writing students--but I encounter the reaction that "it's just a game"" 

Mark pages, "great - let me know what's up" 

bro says, "They can compare the moo space to the space (and disjunctions) 
of the poem."

bro [to Carole]: "its a question of community. Carole [to bro]: in what 
way?

bro says, "The dialogue in moo is definitely different, but I remind my 
students of the type of community they are forming by the way they act 
and speak in the moo."

Carole says, " Do they experience an initial giddiness?" 

bro says, "the moo is a collaborative space. So, students have to learn 
to think this way."

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bro [to Carole]: "yes. alas.

bro says, "How do you handle this?"

Carole says, " well, I have not taught using MOOs so haven't had to--but 
in here, some object to the frivolousness of some conversations--we've 
had quite a few drinking parties in the MOO :)" 

Carole says, " So, the hungry gen BB was an attempt to introduce some 
serious issues. I wrote something on the death of the book but so far no 
one has replied"

bro says, "I let them go at it a bit then talk about their role as 
students. Of course the moo space you send them to has a bit to do with 
it. Don't send them to the opium den."

Carole grins

bro says, "have you read any Greg Ulmer?" 

Carole [to bro]: Yea, a long time ago--so long I don't really remember 
it--he's fairly post-structuralist, yes?