User:Historybuff/script

8:57 PM: historybuf: Scene: An Internet Cafe 8:58 PM:  JWSagain: "Okay students, let's all open our laptops now..." 8:58 PM: historybuf: redpants: I'd really like to figure out how plants work 8:59 PM: historybuf: whitecoat: Aren't you taking a course in bio next semester? 9:00 PM: historybuf: redpants: Yeah, but I've got some time to kill now. Too bad I can't do something right now. 9:00 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: But you can. There is this new learning site called Wikiversity. 9:01 PM: historybuf: whitecoat: Wikiversity? Isn't that some online Encyclopedia? How will that help? 9:02 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: No, it's a sister project of Wikipedia. 9:02 PM: historybuf: redpants: Ok, so how does it work. 9:03 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: First, let's get on and go to the site. 9:04 PM: historybuf: redpants sits at the computer and starts typing. : Ok, there 9:04 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: Now we can search for the topic you want to learn about. 9:05 PM: historybuf: redpants types, and then says: Cool, here it is. That is neat. 9:06 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: You can then explore this topic, and follow links to other topics. 9:06 PM: historybuf: redpants: Why is this link red? 9:07 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: That means someone's identified a topic, but no one has started the page yet. 9:07 PM: historybuf: whitecoat: See, I knew it was lame.<BR> 9:08 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: This is an opportunity to contribute, if you want. You can do the research and write the page.<BR> 9:09 PM: historybuf: redpants: My writing skills suck. I can't write my way out of a paper bag. If I wrote something, some Grad student will flush it away anyways.<BR> 9:10 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: No, that's not how it works. It's collaborative, which means that others will edit and improve your writing.<BR> 9:11 PM: historybuf: whitecoat: But some stuff could be wrong.<BR> 9:11 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: You mean, like the planets orbiting the earth?<BR> 9:12 PM: historybuf: whitecoat: That was an honest mistake<BR> 9:13 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: the idea is to learn ... there should be refrences to texts and sources.<BR> 9:14 PM: historybuf: redpants: I get it. So, I could just start something on Galileo, if it wasn't there. And then someone else would help out, with the stuff I didn't get.<BR> 9:15 PM: historybuf: brownrobe: That's the idea<BR> 9:15 PM: historybuf: Fade out to ... Wikivesity .... bringing the sum of all human knowledge ... to any computer, anytime.<BR> 9:16 PM: historybuf: (background sound)<BR> 9:17 PM: historybuf: whitecoat: That planets think was an honest mistake. I don't know why you keep bringing it up. 9:17 PM: historybuf: JWS: What do you think?<BR> 9:17 PM:  JWSagain: do you really want to do puppets on strings?<BR> 9:17 PM: historybuf: I was thinking popsicle sticks. :P<BR> 9:18 PM:  JWSagain: I see<BR> 9:18 PM: historybuf: You don't like that idea?<BR> 9:19 PM:  JWSagain: its fine<BR> 9:20 PM: historybuf: What do you think of the script?<BR> 9:22 PM: historybuf: That bad, huh? :P<BR> 9:22 PM:  JWSagain: I'm wondering if it might be possible to animate a scene  at the start where the "characters" come right off of the Colloquium page<BR>