• Preparing for the unpredictable,

• Thinking about the incomprehensible,

• Coping with the unbearable, and

• Discussing the unspeakable

• Steve Gilbert, Sally Gilbert, TLT Group

Guests: 

• Todd Zakrajsek, Central Michigan University
• Terry Wildman, Virginia Tech
   
• See below for others, more info
   

Session Outline (Syllabus)
Google Docs Document

Some Helpful Resources

• Fundamental Questions Activity
   

• VERY BRIEF Preparatory Flashlight Online Survey
  - 2 Fundamental Questions
   

• Va. Tech Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching ... Includes suggestions, beginning with "Debrief and Share"
   

• In The Wake of Tragedy: Assistance for Faculty in Responding in a Time of Crisis
  By Todd Zakrajsek;  includes good list of other resources.
   

• Other resources assembled by the TLT Group
  Includes some articles, quotations, and letters of condolence
   

• TLT-SWG Blog Posting - Va. Tech Tragedy/ Resources

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Three Useful Quotations
From three useful longer excerpts - from three useful full texts:

1.  "'The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
       That is the only thing that never fails."
From:  "Learning Cures Sadness" - T. H. White
http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech-tragedy-resources.html

 2.  "...always searching for some version of the truth...They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence…"  
"...biggest mistake I made is ...I did not live in the moment enough..."
From:  Preface and  "Good-Bye Dr. Spock" from Loud and Clear, by Anna Quindlen
http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/2007/05/excerpts-to-help-stay-sane-quindlen.html

3.  "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else..." 
  "...the compensations of calamity are made apparent..."
From:  "Compensation" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/2007/05/emerson-compensation-essay.html

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