MISSION "IMPOSSIBLE"???

Great! Finally received a rather straightforward message from Alex to check out from ELGG CPPD eLearn Group announcement. Jumped into conclusion too fast when couldn't even find the message on the mission. Out of desperation, thought maybe try to check out gmail. True enough, I weren't the only one who couldn't find the message.

This is where group support came to the rescue in the form of Mel. Thanks, for your guidance in finding the location of the message - turned out to be something so easy, yet so easily overlooked. Was quite excited to find out that we had to decipher the password. This reminded me of the many online treasure hunts that I had joined. Great job, Alex for coming out with this format. Really creates a sense of excitement and makes the mission so real.

I actually searched through the net and found out the hard way the password... but later, found out from Mel that the password could actually be found in Ling's wiki... ka ka ka.

Now, after being warned that we cannot abort the mission, we will have to carry on no matter what happens. Am trying to get everyone's agreement to get into Skype this Thurs (boy, I hope I myself don't forget to log on) so that we can all discuss about the questions and who should be doing what.

Lessons learnt:
1. How to go to ELGG and open the correct group and search the message board.
2. Use shared Google calendar to check on availability of team members for skyping.
3. Never give up that easily... help is always a button away.
4. You get thrown into the deep end (it seemed Alex refused to answer any calls/sms/etc.) and you either sink or swim. I think this forces one to be more resilient in finding the answers and learning in the process.