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We are thinking about our
friends at Virginia Tech- those we know and those we don't.
The horrendous events of April 16 make it even more
important for us to try to be helpful to one another.
We're compiling this page of resources in a meager
attempt to build something positive in the face of loss.
Va. Tech
Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Includes suggestions, beginning with "Debrief and
Share"
Draft of Epidemiology Assignment from Virginia Tech via
Cosby Rogers, VTU
In The Wake of Tragedy: Assistance for Faculty in Responding
in a Time of Crisis
By Todd Zakrajsek; includes good list of other
resources.
Resource
page and letter from David Eisler, President, Ferris
State University
Most recent posting on TLT-SWG blog is an excerpt from T.H.
White's Once and Future King. To comment on that or
on related matters, please see:
http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech-tragedy-resources.html
Flyer
from David Boudreaux Vice President at Nicholls State University.
4/16/2007
NSU had lots of experience dealing with the crisis after
Katrina
Open
Letter from Rosann Runte, President Old Dominion
University via Nancy Cooley 4/16/2007
President Runte has written a letter to the ODU community
which we found heartening.
Invitation
to the Chronicle Resources from Ted Weidlein at the
Chronicle of Higher Education 4/18/07
The Chronicle has made its material about this situation
available to anyone.
Summary of Huston and DiPietro's post 9/11 survey via:
Jan Wren, U of the Cumberlands 4/18/07
Summary of a study of student responses to their teachers
after 9/11. What to do and not to do.
Two
articles about Jamie Bishop who died on Monday, April 16
sent by his friend, Greg Robinson from NCSU. 4/18/07
Greg sent these two articles about Jamie Bishop...much more
depth than Washington Post bio.
email from Katherine Brewster, reporting a conversation
with a Korean 10th grader. 4/18/07
Katherine Brewster describes the reactions in an interchange
with one of her students in Brussels.
Link
to a brief news video about George Fox students in
psychology class.4/18/07
This is fairly normal style of video coverage of a classroom
discussion, but some of the content is unusually thoughtful.
Crisis
Response and School/Campus Safety Resources (Links) from
Kathy Cowan NASP via Debra Humphrys at AAC&U
4/18/07. This page, while aimed at educators in
primary and secondary schools, is relevant to college
teachers
trying to understand their students at critical,
disturbing times.
Crisis and
Trauma
URLs from
Sarah Mynatt
UTHSC 4/18/07
These two sites are resources about Trauma related stress.
WKU Faculty
Handbook
URLs From Sally Kuhlenschmidt from the University of
Western Kentucky 4/18/07
Specific cases described, useful grief handout, and "Teaching
and Learning in a Time of Crisis"
Covering Tragedy: Emerging lessons
from the Virginia Tech Killings-
a blog posting
from Kim Pearson, The College of
New Jersey. 4/18/07 Kim Pearson, a
journalism teacher, has given "coverage" quite a bit of
thought.
Bill
Kennedy's column, Grief, in Michigan Technology
University newspaper.
Bill's students wanted to "go on" with the course material
sooner than he would have thought.
Page of
news items and other timely resources from the
Society for College and University Planning,
including invitation to a new listserv on the subject via
Terry Calhoun
"Resources
on Teaching in a Time of Crisis from the National Council of
Teachers of English" via Millie Davis, NCTE
Three Useful Quotations:
From
three useful longer excerpts - from three useful full
texts:
Follow links for longer excerpts,
more complete citations, and links to full text where
available.
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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