[14:10] <Xavier> hi, is this Lilia Garcia?

[14:11] <Lilia> Lilia and Fran are watching you!

[14:11] <Xavier> I think the block might be off; you'll be joined by 18 kids in 10 seconds

[14:12] <Lilia> Hey! This is way cool!

[14:12] <Xavier> Thanks :)

[14:12] <Xavier> (Trying to get the kids on -- walking them through)

[14:13] <Lilia> So I notice that this works sort of like a still picture camera?

[14:14] <Xavier> Yes, the camera images are changed about every 15 seconds

[14:16] <Lilia> So I am watching ive action but the frame rate is one or two frames per every 15 seconds?

[14:16] <Xavier> exactly

[14:17] <Xavier> the chat is in real time, though

[14:18] <Xavier> (trying to get the kids in)

[14:19] <Xavier> we're on the phone with Ms. Young'

[14:19] <Xavier> Hi marc

[14:19] <Xavier> Welcome to the webstudio

[14:19] <marc> ello

[14:20] <Xavier> you're the first dade country public school student to successfully make it to the webstudio

[14:20] <Xavier> congrats

[14:20] <marc> yea!!!!

[14:20] <marc> i rule!!

[14:20] <Xavier> hehe

[14:21] <Xavier> so you like the painting so far?

[14:21] <marc> yea

[14:22] <Xavier> maybe you can help some of your classmates get on ... seems they're having problems

[14:22] <marc> show my sperm whale

[14:22] <Xavier> we'll get to it

[14:23] <marc> hold up

[14:24] <Xavier> there's your sperm whale :)

[14:24] <marc> i have to get out of the chatroom for 1 minute i will be right back.

[14:26] <moyka> hey am the chatrom now

[14:26] <bigy_lu> wats up?

[14:26] <moyka> big lu wuz up

[14:27] <bigy_lu> chillin

[14:27] <moyka> @lilia wuz up

[14:27] <moyka> hey where's the artist

[14:28] <Xavier> hi

[14:28] <bigylu> im back!

[14:28] <Xavier> welcome to the webstudio

[14:28] <moyka> this is fun

[14:28] <Xavier> we're putting up the images you guys made in class

[14:28] <moyka> xavier this is cool

[14:28] <Xavier> recognize any of the fish?

[14:28] <moyka> yes!!

[14:28] <bigylu> naw

[14:29] <Xavier> thanks, looks like some of you are having computer problems over there, eh?

[14:29] <moyka> xavier am the orange fish

[14:29] <moyka> yeah!!!

[14:29] <Xavier> has anyone else been able to get on?

[14:29] <moyka> yeah

[14:29] <Xavier> it's really been a disaster getting this session started

[14:30] <Xavier> we'll try again next Friday

[14:30] <Xavier> everything should be cool by then

[14:30] <bigylu> aight

[14:30] <bigylu> ello

[14:30] <moyka> not really mrs.young doesn'nt no how the computher's work

[14:31] <Xavier> it's not mrs. young's fault -- there's an auto-block in dade county schools that we had to work through

[14:31] <bigylu> sup lilia

[14:31] <moyka> xavier next time you should give insturtions

[14:31] <bigylu> 9,8...

[14:31] <Xavier> the instructions are on the main key biscayne page

[14:32] <moyka> where's the other guy

[14:32] <bigylu> (<*>..<*>)

[14:32] <Xavier> for those who can't access the chatroom, they should just go to the discussion forum, as the instructions say

[14:32] <moyka> xavier hey

[14:32] <Xavier> let's focus on what we're doing instead

[14:33] <moyka> cool

[14:33] <moyka> xavier mrs.young is entering the chatroom

[14:33] <Xavier> which is your fish, bigyfu?

[14:33] <bigylu> hello, sorry we were disconnected. hope everything is going well.

[14:34] <Xavier> what about the rest of the kids, they getting on?

[14:34] <moyka> there trying

[14:34] <Xavier> what i'm doing now is taking all the creatures that your creativity produced, and incorporating them into this sea-like transparent background

[14:35] <moyka> oh that's cool

[14:35] <Xavier> as you remember, the fish were created to represent the water environment that surrounds Key Biscayne

[14:36] <Xavier> an environment that happens to be the most vulnerable to pollution and decay, particularly in the public beaches

[14:36] <Xavier> welcome to the webstudio, me

[14:36] <Xavier> which is yout fish?

[14:37] <Xavier> hey has school let out?

[14:37] <Xavier> how many kids are in the library?

[14:38] Nick change: bigylu -> nikki

[14:38] <nikki> hi

[14:38] <Xavier> hi nikki

[14:38] <nikki> i like ur work

[14:39] <Xavier> it is actually the students' work from Mrs. Young's class

[14:39] <nikki> evry1 says hi

[14:39] <Xavier> but thanks

[14:39] <nikki> is it really the work

[14:40] <Xavier> is what really the work?

[14:40] <Xavier> the drawings are certainly theirs

[14:40] <nikki> teh work that u r painting is it really the work of the kids

[14:40] <nikki> sorry the

[14:41] <nikki> bye time is up

[14:41] <nikki> bye

[14:41] <Xavier> what i'm really doing is facilitating a process of using the students' work to create a public art piece, using a medium, that will be an integral part of their lives for the foreseeable future

[14:42] <Xavier> this project will resume on Friday at 2 p.m. -- by then we hope to have all the blocks taken care of, and we'll continue incorporating the student drawings in to this sea-scape.

[14:43] <Xavier> In the interim, please visit the discussion forum and add your comments to those created by other students, on how each of you can work to keep Key Biscayne beautiful.

[14:45] <Xavier> Just one last note: This is a new project, it actually has never been tried before in schools. You guys are the first class to test it. So it had some glitches, but that's what experimenting is all about. See you guys Friday, with less glitches.