NB! Japanese layout! Reads RIGHT TO LEFT!!
A bit of linguistic trouble for Ashling in this week’s page. (This is also Aoife’s only appearance in this story I’m afraid. I’ll explain why in a later update.)
Part3 – ‘Hanging out’ with Nao on Google
As I mentioned in the last part, there was a desire to get Manga School Nakano’s international program to a larger online audience. However, when the idea to run classes online came up there were a good few technical challenges. At the time, there were only a couple of viable video-conferencing options what would have worked, and many were either difficult to administer or had a large cost attached to it. However, that all suddenly changed:
Google had upgraded their existing IM client to include video chat, conferencing and direct streaming to YouTube. In addition there were user controls which could restrict access to only fee-paying students. Together with screen-sharing and multi-camera support, Hangouts appeared to be as powerful as the business edition of Skype…main the difference being that it was free.
This was ideal. Minimal technical support was needed (just a functioning PC & internet connection), and since many already had a Google account, user control wasn’t a big problem.
The online course seemed to be a possibility now, and thus Nao began work to make it a reality.
..and so we began to test it out 🙂
It seemed to work. Further practical tests went well, and so Nao proceeded further to make the online program around this tool.
Next week, I’ll talk more about the prep work on getting the program launched.
Watch out, Aoife. Áine’s moving in on your territory. 😛
😀
The ‘cute smile’ comment was one of the ideas from Nao that I retained in the final page.
This page took a few rounds to produce. Nao actually liked my original pitch for this page, even going as far as calling the setup ‘cute’. Nao then drew the page herself, which ended up looking like the page above (except with considerably better artwork than me. Her take on Aine is really beautiful).
The ‘cute’ remark isn’t really an attempt to ship Ashling & Aine. So Aoife need not be worried 🙂
Actually, I suspect that rather than being worried, Aoife would be very encouraged by Ashling calling Aine’s smile cute. So maybe it’s a good thing Aoife wasn’t there in this version…
Hmmm, Prof. Tantrum’s course syllabus lists some… interesting course materials. 14.2 grams of plutonium, a flux capacitor, an Illudium Q36 explosive space modulator, two dilithium crystals at least 3.9 grams each, 350 grams of naquadah, 2 kg of red mercury, the James Legge translation of the Necronomicon… He does know he’s supposed to be teaching the Irish language, doesn’t he?
@Kessy: That’s probably true Kessy 🙂 She’d probably love this (and I can’t help but hear the rumblings her excited response in my head…oh dear…). Aoife isn’t entirely removed from this version of Bata Neart, and I you look carefully you’ll see that she sitting beside Ashling in the classroom. If I was to ever continue this alternate universe story (which I’m currently calling Bata Neart’s ‘Nakano’ Continuity) Aoife would have appeared in the second chapter, and would be pretty much the same Aoife we know from the ‘Prime’ Bata Neart universe (main difference being that she would be from Dublin).
Yea…a mad-science class would be more like Tantrum’s style. Teaching Irish is a bit odd for him, especially with his cartoonishly German accent 😀
(Sounds of running down a corridor) *Bursts through door*
Ashling said what?!!!
(Looks at page)
Awwwww… 🙂 Yea, she does have a cute smile…hi hi. I kinda *like* this alternate universe Ashling, she seems to have good taste. I don’t know if ‘my’ Ashling would say that though…at least not openly. Sometimes she’ll mention that my clothes are cute, but that will be about as far as it goes.
I think I need to work more in getting her out of her shell 😉
I meant maybe it’s a good thing Aoife wasn’t there in this scene. I’m picturing her responding to Ashling’s statement by pestering her and very unsubtly fishing for a compliment. LOL
Irish with a German accent? That sounds like an interesting combination. One time I was in Boston and heard some Latino guys talking. The combination Spanish – Boston accent was pretty unique.
Like Boston Catholics speaking Latin at Mass. 😈
Well, Spanish is essentially Latin with a Visigoth accent…
Just for fun, I found this while browsing around:
Funny thing is, accent aside, they’re mostly doing a better job than most students in Ireland 😀