Crisis hasn't gone anywhere as far as I can tell; there are hardly any page views, and most people didn't sign on in the first place. I had hoped that the discussion would have become self-motivating, but it didn't happen; I had also hoped that the empyre discussion might have inspired some people, but that didn't happen either. On my end, I feel the course was too unstructured; that worked with the first course I did with Underacademy but it clearly didn't work here.
The hurricane took up far too much time and energy as well; and after that, there was the nor'easter. I had also been invited, about a week or two before the storm, to be the keynote speaker at a conference dealing with simulation and virtual worlds - between that and the storm, the past month has been exhausting. I still have friends who have destroyed houses, and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Chelsea, where I had a residency, was underwater and is still recovering. We're fairly stressed in New York.
The main thing is, again, that most of the students who signed up, never participated in the blog and most likely didn't read, and those who did participate, quickly dropped out. So perhaps we should call it quits?
Comments welcome; I literally am not sure how to continue at this point.
- Alan
