My New Office

Here’s the 5th Avenue Coffee Company where we’ve set up shop while we’re in Naples. It’s really nice: quiet, wifi, and power – what else is there?
I just finished grading my Distance Learning students’ work. They were required to create their own online course and some of them really went to town. About 5 of [...]

Catching up

Well, after a few days leave, basically leaving everything behind during a stay in the Harvard hospital of the East (Sirijaj), I’m back and ready to share what’s been going on.
After recuperating a little on Thursday, we were off to the Grand Palace on Friday. It was amazing – gold tiles from Italy covered one [...]

Smooth as butter

The “you can post anywhere” week went fairly well. Only a few mix-ups, lots of grace, and still good interaction and learning. Now we’re officially in the new CMS as things are as smooth as butter – or as they say of Barbra Streisand’s voice “butta.”
I don’t think we give students enough credit sometimes – [...]

I Feel Your Pain

Well, we’re still struggling with our CMS … that is, 4 students and me – all using the same Internet provider.

The decision is a hard one – stay with it until it works right for everyone and have those 4 become outcasts and no longer part of the online community since they can’t upload [...]

Scrambling to make it work

Since last Saturday, our CMS has been slowing down to a crawl. I thought it was my connection, but started getting emails from 401 students who couldn’t log on. After almost 24 hours of no access, I decided to try something new and put the discussion question in a blog.
I used 21Publish – that blog [...]