Yikes, almost missed a day

I’ve spent the past two days mostly on the phone with the interns I am coaching, and fitting time into breaks and late afternoon spots some efforts to keep up with emails from the connectivism course. Not easy, when there are just under 2000 people in the course, posting their introductions and greeting others they know, plus engaging in some discussions of the course ideas. Every message goes to the group and all of them come into my inbox. I debated allowing this, and decided that if I didn’t, I would probably never go to the online forum to read them. As it is, there are other threads of discussion starting up and I am not subscribed to all of them. Of course, this problem is directly relevant to the course itself. How can we connect within a group this large? Is it feasible? Or desirable? Already, a subgroup has formed of Ontario people with a separate list of discussions. Meanwhile, in my other course, landscape design, there is also a pile of introductions, but at least there are only 42 people in that one.