Chat Transcripts

2-7-01 - Dr. Todd Richards, who has done research using MRIs and students who have dyslexia, and Ms. Bonnie Meyer, the Director of the Hamlin Robinson School, for students with dyslexia.

4-4-01 - Siobhan Robinson, a graduate student in the neurobiology and behavior program at the UW

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Please read all directions first before you go to the chat and conference rooms. If you forget these instructions you can come back to these instructions anytime by clicking the back button until you reach this page.

1. Click on the sentence below that says Making Connections Chat and Conference Rooms

2. If you haven't been to the chat or conference room before, click on new user - make sure you write down your login in name and password because if you forget it you will have to be a new user the next time and create a new login name and password! If you have been to these rooms previously, just login. If you are a new user, fill in the user information. Don't leave any spaces in your login name or password.

3. Now you will find yourself in the conference room - you can stay here for a while and leave or respond to messages by clicking on the messages listed in this column(there are two messages there now - "Using the Chat and Conference Rooms" and "Making Connections Ongoing Discussion") or you can go directly to the chat room by clicking on the word "chat" above the word conferences. Once you have clicked on the word chat, a screen on the right hand side will come up that says "Available Chat Rooms" - click on the line that says "Welcome to Making Connections" - you are in!

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