A problem with an online journal is the reliance on internet access - I talked about this before when the internet was down all over. As it turned out, it was down all over, so anything I posted was probably not going to be read. I had a local situation this week when my office access went off early Monday morning. As of Wed a.m., I was still waiting for a visit from U of Miss technical services (this is near the beginning of the semester, so a busy time). The university has a wi-fi but it does not work well in some of the buildings including the one that houses my office. The building that houses my department has no wifi access, so I cannot simply go use one of the spare rooms there. Yesterday, I sat outside on a bench near the library to try to finish my grading. Note: As discussed in an earlier post, I do not have a 'smart phone' although I am not certain I would use it to try to read written student assignments if I did.
It is amazing how internet dependent I am even though I like to think I am not - it is the little, spontaneous daily uses I do not think about (check the weather; check my interlibrary loan account for some book chapters I requested; use the library dbases to find an article I marked in the reference list of a book I am reading; take a look at my bank account balance, etc.) As I discussed earlier, although I use Dropbox, some - the 'some' is due to my basic mistrust of uninterrupted internet access at home or on campus. In a break with my normal practice, I uploaded a presentation on Sunday night to Dropbox so I could continue to edit it on Monday because I needed to give it on Tuesday, and sure enough, this was exactly the wrong time to depend on Dropbox. I ended up staying up late at home on Monday to work on it, then I put the finished product on my (so far) reliable 8g flash drive.
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AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
February 2024
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