The hurricane season
First, Nicole, now Tomás. The Atlantic hurricane season this year has been very active. We’re now at the letter ‘T’. Nicole brought lots of rain and knocked out electricity leading to no Internet access for me for a couple of days. Now comes Tomás, which has already affected Barbados, St Lucia (worst so far) and St Vincent. I understand that Tomás brings lots of rain and wind, downing roofs, trees and power lines (http://www.topix.com/hurricane/hurricane-tomas).
The effect in my institution is that deadlines for assignments and quizzes have to be pushed back as many students in countries affected by the hurricane have neither electricity nor Internet access and in some cases will experience difficulty getting to our learning centres. We in Jamaica are expected to feel the effects of Tomás by Thursday and there is no way of knowing at this point what those effects will be. In this region, the annual hurricane season and its repercussions must be factored into planning for delivery of online learning. I’ll be trying to be as active as I can until later this week.
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Hello Charmaine,
Your experience puts the ‘barriers’ that are preventing me from completing my ethnography firmly into perspective!
Hope things don’t get too bad out with you.
James
James, thanks for the good wishes. Indeed, barriers are relative, aren’t they?
I’ve worked out an angle for my ethnography because otherwise I think it would be too general. So I hope it will work!