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...anonymous world of online schooling, however. Instead, users benefit from what cyber-instructor Margie Davis calls the "faceless intimacy of the Internet." Some of Davis' online writing courses, offered through America Online and her own website, writingtoheal.com require students to tackle tough subjects in reflective personal essays. The six-week offerings have weighty names like Writing for Caregivers and Writing About Cancer. Says Davis: "My students don't know me personally. They feel very safe. They have an audience that isn't threatening or competitive...
...anonymous world of online schooling, however. Instead, users benefit from what cyber-instructor Margie Davis calls the "faceless intimacy of the Internet." Some of Davis' online writing courses, offered through America Online and her own website, writingtoheal.com, require students to tackle tough subjects in reflective personal essays. The six-week offerings have weighty names like Writing for Caregivers and Writing About Cancer. Says Davis: "My students don't know me personally. They feel very safe. They have an audience that isn't threatening or competitive...
...will likely not come back before the council--which goes on a six-week vacation this summer--for several months...
Sewell's class is small--just eight women, all boomer age or older--and was clearly designed with the forgetful in mind. Though the group meets six times over six weeks, the participants all wear name tags at all the sessions. Members who forget to attend a class are free to come back in the next six-week cycle--especially helpful for absentminded folks like me who may still be trying to make up missed dental appointments originally scheduled...
...Shot is meant to protect me in case those starving Stalinists across the border decide, in a disastrous fit of pique, to gas us. My March injection is meant to be the first in a six-week, three-shot regimen that will then require semi-annual and, finally, annual boosters until I'm out of the service and safe at home with just one paycheck again. Which sounds like a fine idea. Except that a handful of soldiers are blaming The Shot for any number of physical ravages (thyroid malfunctions, autoimmune disorders, heart stoppages, etc.), and a growing number...