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January 5, 2005

Attendance:  Eileen Heasley, Carol Isakson, Laura Cummings, Mary Jeanne Franzinger, Sue McFeely, Dyann Smith, Camille Grabb, Barb Grade, Jim Wenzloff from Macomb ISD
Place: Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum

Introductions: 

We introduced ourselves for the benefit of Karl Zinn, our speaker, and Sandy Dugan, a foreign language professor from Eastern Michigan University who was also in attendance at the workshop. 

Business: 

  • Eileen reported that our Let’s Talk web page has a new server, still through Central Michigan University. Carol I. is working on a template and so will again put together web page for this month’s meeting.

  • Dyann circulated a list for volunteers for treats for our meetings.

  • Barb is working on places for us to meet. Mary Jeanne will check into using St. Clare School for our February 5 meeting. Karen Bunting is scheduled as the speaker to talk about FileMaker. Our March meeting will be at MACUL. April and May suggested topics are “FURLing” (furl.net) and using Blogs. (Jim Wenzloff introduced both of these topics at our December meeting on Adobe Photoshop.)

 

 


Ann Arbor Hands On Museum

 


Patricia and Karl. 
(Patricia saw what fun we were having and joined us for lunch in person!)


Karl connects with Christina and Richard Humm of Kigluait Educational Adventures in Alaska 

Speaker: Karl Zinn on Inexpensive Video Conferencing

Karl Zinn, retired from the University of Michigan and now on staff at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, was our speaker and demonstrator for “Inexpensive Video Conferencing.” Although we had some sound issues, Karl connected via his laptop to Patricia Beals, the Hands-On Museum Interactive Media Educator, at her home. Even more impressive was his live connection to a couple in Alaska while we were at lunch. The café had a wireless connection and Karl was able to use that for our live video/discussion to Alaska! Karl was using a MAC laptop with an iSight web cam and iChat AV. We looked at a number of websites on video conferencing that have education sections. Some charge fees, some do not. Karl said he would email the URL’s to us.

Karl gave us a folder highlighting the Hands-On Museum and a tour of the museum after lunch.

Karl's synopsis of the sites presented

     
We all got to chat with Christina and Richard about
education activities, sled dogs and compared snow depth (they won).  
Karl shows the Hums the lunch selection at Cafe Verde. 
Laura enjoys the interactive art exhibit at the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum

Next Meeting:

Our next meeting will be February 5, 2005 with Karen Bunting the speaker. Site to be announced.

Credits for this month's page:
Minutes: submitted by: Mary Jeanne Franzinger
Pictures: take and resize: Eileen Heasley and Carol Isakson
Web page: Carol Isakson