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Chat with students Moral from China and Marina from Italy - and teachers Vance, Michael and Maggi

July 23, 2000

This chat reached an impasse. It was kind of funny actually. Moral has never participated in the HearMe chats because he is not able to run the Voice Presence software, so he got us all to download VoxPhone from http://www.voxphone.com. Vance and Moral started voice-chatting in VoxPhone and it was working fine, and Moral was able to bring Michael into the chat. But when Maggi joined, none of us were able to reach her via VoxPhone. This was odd since she’d talked with Moral earlier on VoxPhone. So we tried to escape to the Palace. Moral and Maggie could go there, but not Michael. We couldn’t even get ICQ to work for us; it kept bumping the 4th person to be drawn into the chat. Marina joined us at the Palace and at HearMe without Moral. She didn't have VoxPhone installed. Meanwhile, Ying Lan sent an email saying she was unable to get online at all due to connection difficulties. What a night!!

Here's the log of the Palace chat:

Connecting to efi.virtualscholar.com:9998

Connected via TCP

*** Welcome to The Virtual School House Vance!

Vance: @64,64 !It's Vance

marina: @64,64 !It's marina

Vance: Hi there

marina: Hi

Vance: Hi there. Moral might be here in a minute

Vance: It's hard to be in two places at once isn't it

Vance: So, where are you in Italy?

Vance: It's one of my favorite countries. I've been all over Italy.

Vance: Where are you in Italy?

marina: I'm from Rome

Vance: I was in Rome last January

marina: So, you know this city well!

Vance: Not well exactly, but I do know the center a bit. It was my second time there, but 30 years came between

Vance: I got an ICQ from Moral. I told him to come here.

marina: I see.And what do you like in Rome?

Vance: The food, the wine, the Italians ...

Vance: So where do you teach? My wife teaches children

marina: Yes,but I mean do you like a particular place?

Vance: Let me think .. I thought the Cappucine church with the skeletons was interesting

marina: Ok!

Vance: What do YOU like there?

Moral: @64,64 !It's Moral

Vance: Hi Moral

Moral: Hi Marina and Vance!

Vance: Hi. Michael is ready with voxphone. I'm on hearme on the other computer

marina: One of my favourite places is il Gianicolo

Moral: Vance, where is Maggi?

marina: Hi, Moral

Moral: Marina, I am a webheads student, are you?

marina: I'm a new student

Moral: Nice to meet you. I am from China. And you?

marina: I'm from Italy

Vance: Hi ... Moral, let's do voxphone now. Are you running it?

marina: I dont' have voxphone.

Moral: yes

Vance: It's ok marina. We can chat here and in HearMe

Vance: Moral, can you call me? I'm getting an echo with Michael

marina: Now I have to leave.See you next time!

Moral: Michaels uses speaker so we get echo.

Moral: sorry, bye, Marina.

Vance: Nice talking to you

Moral: but you can dowoload Voxpone at : http://www.voxphone.com

Vance: I heard you say you had to leave

Moral: Yes, I'll leave for Voxphone too. see you there!


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