Seasons

Correct lunar. Good to see you're still around.

Well, it didn't quite happen as planned. Technical issues with the school's network meant that the best I could do was set up a projector and give them a bit of a tour as I went around the site and we tried fab lad and Julie Tinkerbell. Most of them wanted me to type come ons and insults, so when I actually give them a go on their own I would expect some of them to be a little less than appropriate, even though I showed them how I will be able to keep track of what they say.

I'm going to try again Friday our time.

BTW, Julie's comeback to the one insult we did try on her (coupled with her rather smug smile on the flash interface) did impress them. I'll be interested what they make of it all once they get a chance to try it out for themselves.

You should have let me dream, I was so pleased to think of children that were.....well...not from Leeds.

leeds is spreading influence... we must isolate them in labor camps

It's not that far removed from one anyway.

lol

Well we had another go yesterday. It seemed to go fairly well and I think most of the bots acquitted themselves well. I basically let them choose from the top ten most developed bots with an E or T rating, although we were unable to talk to the flash chat bots.

As far as my kids went, there was some flirting, some insults and one actual offer to 'make love'. With most of them I know it was done somewhat in the spirit of testing out what the bots can recognise. With a couple of others I will be having some pretty frank words though.

Their spelling didn't make it easy for the bots in a couple of parts though. Hmm . . . someone should do something about that. Oh wait, I'm their English teacher.

The kids did have fun. The discussion later on was pretty animated. I've explained the basics of keyphrases and seeks to them and I'm hoping to develop a little ongoing class project to make a bot of our own.

We'll see how it all goes from here. On another note, I've noticed that one student from the class (one of the nicer ones) and two other students at the school have set up accounts on here. We'll have to see if the Forge bug bites. Lord knows, after something like four years, a nine month absence and an addiction to a certain half-life mod have not been enough to stop this place pulling me back.

I'm an 8th grader who's not from Leeds!

after the leeds kids become extinct as a result of survival of the fittest, lets make a museum of the extinct "primates"

We could tell you were not from Leeds, you use words to speak, and put them in sentences.

It's not all the Leeds kids fault. I would imagine the lack of an opposable thumb makes typing a little tricky.

I only use my thumbs to use the spacebar! Maybe they just never learned to speak/write/type and can only use the bits and pieces they learned from the internet?