This morning I easily managed to get the UIUC’s Office of Continuing Education to fax the info to me that they had sent in the mail yesterday. However, that was just the beginning of the adventure. With my “NetID” in hand, I was able to set up my email account. With my UIUC email account set up, I was able to get the info that had been emailed to me about activating my account on the Graduate School of Library & Information Science’s online learning server (a.k.a. LEEP). Unfortunately, I hit another snag. Apparently I didn’t have a LEEP account yet, so I had to put in a call to the GSLIS tech support. A little while later I had a LEEP account. With my LEEP account set up, I was able to attend class. All told, I think I have about a half dozen different accounts with UIUC now. Hooray for Password Wallet, which is remembering all those passwords for me.
The class went very well. The LEEP server provides a live audio stream of the professor and a java chat environment for synchronous interaction with the professor and the rest of the class; and a bulletin board for asynchronous interaction throughout the week. A large part of the class seems like it will be posting on the bulletin board—both in the public discussions and my private journal. There are over 20 people in the class, and most of them seem to be taking it as continuing education and/or professional development. The content of the course is highly applicable to my job. In fact, this class is probably the most applicable of any library science class that I’ll ever take. As for books, I was thrilled to discover the other day that all of the books that I need are owned by the Covenant Library, so the cost of books for this semester will be a big fat $0.
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