Internet connection

This past week I noticed that our Nicenet classroom was a bit quieter than over the first three weeks. While my colleagues’ absence was justified by teaching, grading, testing or other important events such as a wedding, I struggled with the lack of Internet signal. I spent this week on the Island of Murter on the Adriatic Sea, and before the trip I bought a mobile Internet USB stick. Unfortunately, the strength of the signal was too low and more often than not all I could get was the unwanted “cannot open the page” message.

On Sunday afternoon I went to another island, up north, called Krk (BTW, did you know that in the Croatian part of the Adriatic there are around 1200 islands, but only 66 are inhabited?), where I am going to spend the next 10 days with my family. Luckily, the Internet access doesn’t seem to be an issue here so I’ll be able to fully participate in the discussions of the following weeks.

In between weeks

The second week's tasks are completed. I submitted a number of comments to my colleagues' Nicenet posts as well as to their blogs, but right now I'm asking myself if I could have commented more than that. Because it's the diligence and the hard work of my dear colleagues from all over the world that makes me question my work so far.

Up to now I have attended several webinars, but never have my coursemates been so persevering in carrying out their weekly tasks, so willing to provide helpful advice, so responsive to participants' needs as in this course. It is with great pleasure that I'm taking part in this course.

As we're now at the end of the demanding second week, I'd like to show you a video about the importance of librarians, which we discussed in several Nicenet posts. It's a video created by students and faculty of the Washington University. I hope you don't mind that the librarians are singing to Lady Gaga's song Pokerface. Please consider it to be just a little treat for the end of the week.

Catching up

Friday was a holiday here in Croatia, so I grabbed the chance to go to the Adriatic with my family. It was a computer-free weekend as I don't have access to the Internet in this small village.

I was absent for only THREE days, and I'm now in awe of my assidious course mates who posted 82 messages and a plethora of blog posts, comments and useful links.

I definitely have some catching up to do! And I'm looking forward to it immensely.