Tim suggest a pic of the boat would be nice. How about this?

http://www.semesteratsea.org/our-ship/overview/

And here is our cabin:

Small Cabin

But! It’s a temporary spot for us. We were displaced by the huge number of important personages aboard for the Global Forum. We will be moving to another cabin when we get to Halifax.

Was privileged to hear Justice Sandra Day O’Connor speak today. But disappointed in her presentation. She was discussing the conflict between presidential and judicial powers. Pretty current issue I think. But she led us through several historical episodes and her message seemed to be that this conflict was inevitable and that we would always survive it. Which I guess means that whomever we elect, we have to put up with ANYTHING they want to do until we manage to get them replaced. ugh.

Kathy on the observation deck with a red sun setting over Maryland.

Cool Fort Lauderdale Tree

Riverside Hotel - Ft Lauderdale

Yesterday we had our first “laptop setup” clinic for faculty/staff. Today we had our scheduled IT training.

So… well… we had a how-to handout, and we had a couple of experienced ISE staff onboard (until Halifax) so we kind of picked it up as we went. My new mac paid off as I was able to help folks with macs.

The students will have essentially no internet. Well, there is onboard email they can use, and 30 or so free internet sites, including the UVA library. They will have access to all the academic databases there. But as for facebook etc. 125 minutes with some smallish max download and the option to purchase more time.

So, get folks mapped to shared folders, onto shipboard email (OWA), onto metered internet (24online), and possibly add some ip printers. Good practice as 739 students get on in a couple of days.