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We started the course work of the MA Digital Arts this week with a Week One online chat which got off to a rocky start due to technical problems with Blackboard, which still don’t seem to be resolved. Switching to Basecamp seems like a good compromise to get us reconnected. I haven’t found a way to post links in Basecamp as it is primarily a writing and editing tool.

There are eight online students in my course: Ayhan Oensal in Germany, Patrizio Spadoni in Italy, Brian Morris in Greece, Bob Milner, John Williams, Julian Jans and Susan Mortimer in England. I now know their names, but I don’t have much of sense of who they are.

I have started a weblog to record my research and reflections. The beauty of a weblog, is that we can post links to other online sources and references- which is a major advantage.

One of the challenges for me is that from Vancouver, I am eight hours ahead of London- that makes the live chat very early my time! Chat starts at 5:30 my time. I’m sleeping during the morning in London and when my alarm goes off and I’m doing my best to wake up, it’s mid afternoon there.