Larry Pixel: can you hear me Howard? Willow Shenlin: yes CDB Barkley: yes Sashah Amat: yes Scarlett Qi: Yay! Chispa Cela: yes Thursday Xu: yay Yakira Kazan: hair seems to be mandatory *smiles* Carol Hula: yes Carrie Umarov: yes Mari Asturias: yay! Bron Bloxome: we hear Bron Bloxome: clear as a bell CDB Barkley: Weeee! ^.^ Lorah Heron: getting feedback, larry Campbell Camel: louder please Mari Asturias: I think i'ts coming from Howard's mic as Larry talks Silver Tomorrow: lol Lorah Heron: ok, i hope it stops later Memetic Projects: it will Professor Humby: it's minor compared to the chop chop earlier Howard Rheingold: I have moved my mic away so maybe that's not it... CDB Barkley: /kind of a futuristic echo effect CDB Barkley: /applause Scarlett Qi claps Willow Shenlin: /applause HVX Silverstar: /applause Need Writer: applause Ninmah Ash: you sound great! Professor Humby: u r fine Larry Pixel: sonds fine Chispa Cela: sounds fine Larry Pixel: we are all good Larry Pixel: yes Willow Shenlin: yes Need Writer: coming through clear Lyr Lobo smiles and nods Yakira Kazan: nope Lindie Thursday: someone has an open mike Carol Hula: feedback Memetic Projects: Professor Humbey again Slugger Sosa: I'm getting alot of feedback Lyr Lobo: Professor Humby... turn off your voice Willow Shenlin: swisssssllle Thursday Xu: prof - turn off your mic Ninmah Ash: Prof Humbley, can you turn off your voice please? Ninmah Ash: thank you! Willow Shenlin: great Slugger Sosa: thanx CDB Barkley: better Need Writer: there! German Guru: now I don't hear anything any more. Willow Shenlin: your fine Kieran Kiernan: You're on Desideria Stockton: I can hear you goodwitch Broome: y Kev Juno: yes Memetic Projects: yep!@ Lyr Lobo: yes Chispa Cela: yes Frizzy Lisle: yes Carrie Umarov: yes CDB Barkley: yes Mari Asturias: yes... Marie Torricelli: yep Kim Pasternak: yes Kah3na Falken: fine Lorah Heron: yes Thursday Xu: yes Scarlett Qi: Yes I can hear you HVX Silverstar: yes Erika Vale: yes! Tenpas Luke: Yes Bron Bloxome: y Lyr Lobo: sounds great...clear and strong Memetic Projects: heheh Larry Pixel: contact help@nmc.org if you have issues Larry Pixel: as you have questions, IM them to me and I will hold them in a queue for Howard Willow Shenlin: cuneforms Larry Pixel: / as you have questions, IM them to me and I will hold them in a queue for Howard Larry Pixel: Bryan Zelmanov: did early communication make organized religion possible? Or vice-versa? or both, dialectically? Larry Pixel: Howard are you not able to hear me Willow Shenlin: echo Larry Pixel: Bryan Zelmanov: did early communication make organized religion possible? Or vice-versa? or both, dialectically? Kieran Kiernan: Doh! CDB Barkley: oops Scarlett Qi: Oops Willow Shenlin: oops Carol Hula: uh oh Bron Bloxome: we hear you Larry Desideria Stockton: lol Desideria Stockton: poof CDB Barkley: where's howrd? Willow Shenlin: crashed CDB Barkley: kaboom! CDB Barkley: He did not like the question Willow Shenlin: teh voice 's here Ninmah Ash: yes Lyr Lobo: yes Slugger Sosa: y Bron Bloxome: yes Thursday Xu: yes Need Writer: yes Larry Pixel: yes Frizzy Lisle: yes Desideria Stockton: we can hear you Tenpas Luke: Yes Lorah Heron: yes Marie Torricelli: but not see you!' Lorah Heron: i don't see howard anymore Larry Pixel: Question for Howard Larry Pixel: Bryan Zelmanov: did early communication make organized religion possible? Or vice-versa? or both, dialectically? Mari Asturias: Howard is a disembodied avatar?! Ninmah Ash: Howard, Larry will put the questions into chat, can you see chat? CDB Barkley: audio can work when SL crashes Desideria Stockton laughs Kieran Kiernan: Larry, looks like you might have to answer the question yourself. :) Willow Shenlin: echo Scarlett Qi laughs Kieran Kiernan: No pressure. CDB Barkley: He did not like that question CDB Barkley: ! Scarlett Qi: Good point, CDB. :) Desideria Stockton shows love for Larry and Alan CDB Barkley: His voice client is still working Kah3na Falken: echo Thursday Xu: he is showing in the voice window. Need Writer: howard is data trash Bron Bloxome: ran from the question :-) Mari Asturias: Larry ... tap dance Marie Torricelli: ouch Frizzy Lisle: talk to the hand Kieran Kiernan: lol Mari Thursday Xu: howard has evolved! CDB Barkley: Howard Ruth Lyr Lobo: great idea, Larry Professor Humby: aww. i've had a few that i would like to have disappeared on too Kieran Kiernan: wb HR! Need Writer: lol Frizzy Lisle: wb Desideria Stockton claps!!!!!!!! Trancecracker Kit: audio too loud Howard, can you move away from mic? Need Writer: distortion Willow Shenlin: yes, but red Lorah Heron: a little loud Willow Shenlin: great Lorah Heron: better Willow Shenlin: excellent Kah3na Falken: good Maor Quimby: through Q= the mobile- the lines between the digital and physical space are being 'blurred'... can you speak to the public vs private identity issues of the user ? Agave Akula: mmmm still too hot goodwitch Broome: agave, click on the speech bubbles next to your talk button...and select "howard" and lower his volume Heron Holmer: listenig to Reinghold Onetti Miles: where? Heron Holmer: on one side of the Amphiteatre Heron Holmer: right side Heron Holmer: second line Carrie Umarov: Howard, You spoke about human communication arising out of necessity and survival. But some of the research that I have done (text based only) is that children learn through social and communicative interaction with other people. One author has talked about the reference triangle between child, adult and outside world/entity - referred to this as joint attentional interaction. As to evolution of communication, one author Others suggests that foraging behaviours lead to the development of taxonomies to classify plants/animals and aid in hunting/gathering. So I guess my question is it a drive to communicate and connect or do you think that necessity drove evolution of human communication? Or a combination of necessity and 'drive' to communicate (communication simply as byproduct of learning process)? Need Writer: thanks very much howard! Campbell Camel: louder with questions Memetic Projects: visualiz whirled peas Howard Rheingold: Carrie -- there are a lot of interesting theories about that. Do you know William Calvin's work? Carrie Umarov: No, my background is the sciences and anthropology, so I am familiar with primate and human evolution and am familiar with some writers on embodied mind or intelligence. My understanding is based on anthropology (human evolution), learning theory, and some papers on robotics. Kah3na Falken: Julian dribble CDB Barkley: The internet audience was changing too from early techies Larry Pixel: /jump on on the back channel..... Larry Pixel: /hee in chat Larry Pixel: here Agave Akula: howard, please move your mic just a bit more Howard Rheingold: Carrie, look at "The Throwing Madonna" Carrie Umarov: Thanks Howard, I will check it out. CDB Barkley: /and are we prepared for "social network fatigue"? Willow Shenlin: In spirit with Harold's keynote speech, I want to promote the SaLamander Wiki http://www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki; it is an effort to aggregate educational resources (sims, materials, etc) in one place. This is very much a collective effort. Just join (free) log in, and edit. Marie Torricelli: or the Fox news network Larry Pixel: lol Kah3na Falken: lol Howard Rheingold: Thanks, Willow Willow Shenlin: and new kind of teacher ed program Willow Shenlin: wlcom CDB Barkley: It's all miscellaneous ;-) CDB Barkley: / view source Need Writer: yay parents CDB Barkley: "I am an optmist- there's not much use in being anythig else" Churchill Onetti Miles: good question as far as I come from Spain Willow Shenlin: l'Academie Francaise would certianly agree with that! Willow Shenlin: lol