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I have added a "Transitions" link on the navigation bar. There you will find the full Transitions Service Learning handout that I distributed at the beginning of the semester. The last/third page of it is the final paper assignment.
 * Saturday April 19**

[|Therapy Dog International]

**Kaybee's K-9 Training & Spa** (989) 893-1390 1405 N Johnson St, Bay City, MI 48708

Complete [|"Nailed" Module 2] online. Quiz on Thursday, March 20 in class at the start of class. No make-ups for this quiz.
 * Tuesday March 18**


 * Sunday March 16**

I will not be holding office hours on Monday March 18. I apologize for any inconvenience, but I have not been feeling well and will not be on campus on Monday.


 * Friday March 14

[|Statistical Abstract of the United States]** Since several have asked for this again - this is what I showed to the class before break - where you can go and find a ton of statistics on thousands of topics (remember - this is back when I first assigned you to start your research...). Go to the "Index" at the bottom of the page, and it will give you a table number. Go back to the main page and look up the number of your table. It's thaaaat easy. I found some great stats for autism under "disability."


 * Thursday March 13**

Due to Spitzer's resignation from office as govenor of New York, Will Paterson, the Lt. Gov., will step up and now become governor. Paterson is only the third black governor in the U.S., the first in NY, and he is also legally blind. [|NPR]has some great excerpts from his "transition speech" today, and he has some wonderful peceptive comments on his own disability as well as those of others. This is HISTORY in your lifetime! Amazing!

Thank you all for your participation in Mike Cooper's visit today. Good questions, good answers, I took a lot of notes that will be helpful in some of our later class discussions.

Mike mentioned reading the ADA. It is available online - I have numerous sources linked for this. It's difficult to get a print copy, but Mike has one and will see about making copies of it.


 * Tuesday March 11**

I have posted your assignment on the Discussion Board for Paper 2 (click on the Paper 2 link, then on the "discussion" tab on that page).

You must post to this DB no later than midnight, Friday March 14.

Complete [|"Nailed" Module 1] online. Quiz on Thursday, March 13 in class at the start of class. No make-ups for this quiz.


 * Monday March 3**

As it turns out, we will be having two guest speakers the week we return from break.


 * Tuesday, March 11** - Don Norton from the [|Tourette Syndrome Association] will visit the class for a presentation, video and discussion. Please be ready and willing to ask ANY questions you have (trust me, he will take ANY question!).


 * Thursday, March 13** - Mike Cooper from Delta's Disability Services Office will visit the class. Mike will be discussing a range of topics: the change in disability services since the advent of the ADA, what constitutes a disability in terms of accomodations in the workplace and at school, how HS is different than college when it comes to accomodations, and a lot from his own personal experience as a person who acquired his disability later in life. Mike is also very receptive to ANY questions you may have and will really take the discussion in whatever direction you would like based upon your interest.


 * Journal** will still be due on Thursday March 13. Please get a focus in these journals on your topic area of interest for Paper 2 and include a works cited entry, either on the same page as your journal or on a separate page, to idetify the source of your journal.

It just worked out scheduling-wise that these two presentations are back-to-back, so we will hold on our papers until the following week, but I will be expecting that you have a topic area of interest. I will give instructions in class about how I will follow up with this, but it's going to involve either e-mail or a discussion board here on the wiki to share your ideas. Be ready for that! (You were all sent invitations to join the wiki - so now is the time.)


 * A note on signing up for the wiki:** Please choose a user name that clearly identifies you as a student in this class. Your user name does not need to be the same as your e-mail name, but it should be clear in this forum who you are to me and to your peers. In other forums, it may be wise to conceal your identities, but not here. Thank you!

Those of you with fast connections, check out //Rolling// under the film link. It's actually a full-length documentary available online. It just premiered in January 08. I'm going to see about getting loaner copies from the filmmaker.

I've also added a very cool new informative/community web site link under Web Resources called "Disaboom.com" - check it out.

ENG112 Wiki Welcome

This site is meant as a supplement to the F2F classes by offering resources for research and information of interest relevant to our class.

If there is something you would like to see added to this site to make it more useful for you, please don't hesitate to ask.

You may also become "members" of the wiki and create and change your own pages. If you're interested in doing this, simply request to join the site.


 * User Tip**: If a link has a green arrow, it means clicking it will navigate you away from the wiki. To get back to the wiki, you only need to hit the back arrow in your internet navigation bar. If you do not want to navigate away from the wiki, right click on the link and select "Open in New Tab" or Open in New Window" option. This will keep the wiki in one tab/window while opening the link in another.