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This is the last week of module I. For those of you who have been keeping up with your journals and discussion posts, there is not much else to worry about. I'll be posting your grades later today on that work. I'll send you an email with the details. Make sure you have 5 personal journal posts by the end of this week and have participated in all three discussions. Minimum requirement for the discussion is 3 posts.

This week is our last week to discussion Lady Chatterley's Lover, so we

I hope you are all enjoying Lady Chatterly's Lover. It is one of my favorite books, and I haven't read it in over 20 years. Yes, I know, I'm old. :) Anyway, this time around I'm listening to it on audiobook, which is challenging for me. I love to read, and some how it just doesn't feel like I'm reading. I love to pause and think about a passage before continuing and iTunes and my ipod just don't do that for me unless I push a button. I also miss seeing the words. I know that sounds odd

Hello All! Well, it's time to get started. Hopefully you've all had a chance to download or buy the first book by now. I have noticed that some of you still have not signed up on the course network. Remember that is our course management system and will be how we get our assignments and how we do them. We will be blogging and discussion on the network, so if you haven't signed up yet, please do so right away.

On the course network, you will need to click on the Notes tab to see the we

I'm glad you all signed up for this new course offered here at South Mountain Community College. With 13, the class is a go! I'm so excited to be teaching this course, and hope you are excited as well. I'll be sending you more information about the course next week when we start, but for now you all need to get registered on the course network. We will be using that as our course management system. Just fill out the bio questions, add a photo and introduction yourself in the Forum: Introducti

A hybrid course is one that has some percentage of the course content online, but still provides the comfort of meeting with an instructor in person 1 day a week. So instead of relying solely on the instructor to provide the class information in class two times a week for a total of 3 hours each week, a hybrid class splits it up a bit and puts a lot of the materials online where they are accessible 24/7 making in-class meetings shorter & more meaningful. Here’s a description of how this c

People have actually banned books in the US. That’s censorship. What about the 1st Amendment? And who are they to tell us what we can read? We are going to read some of those books and learn about why books have been banned or challenged and by whom. Books are often challenged or banned due to an individual or group of individuals considering the book to be controversial, immoral, inappropriate, sexually explicit, divisive, corrupt, vulgar, violent, or even wicked. Unfortunately, challenged a