Change!

Hello Everyone,
Please check your email for an important announcement from Ms. Poe about HBSEII.

Yes, I am still here and will be in the office tomorrow :) Dr. Hudson should now be showing up in Blackboard as the course instructor.

Blackboard is UP

You should be all set...contact Robin Navel at rnavel@uu.edu if you still have trouble signing in:)

Update

From Robin Navel (re:Black Board)...

We are still working on the Datatel / Blackboard integration. As soon as course sections become available for course development, I will send you email notification. Thanks for bearing with us through this process.
Robin



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Office hours all day Weds! :)

Blackboard

BB is still not up and running yet! I just sent another email...hopefully they will get it sorted in the next couple of days. Anyway, you have the material to work on, so feel free to do it, and then just save and copy and paste it when BB is up and running again for us...

Also no word on our classroom (we don't want the computer lab!). But now it looks like we have an extra week to get that figured out as well.

Have a great holiday next week!

NEW SCHEDULE! MLK HOLIDAY- OBAMA

Blackboard Update: Not sure what is going on, but I am going back and forth with them trying to get it figured out. I will have a post due, but it will just be before our next in person meeting. I will let you know once BB is back up and running for the "new" course.

In the meantime, read 19 Minutes (which so many of you gave me very happy feedback about tonight!)...and Chapters 7& 8.

January 12, 2009: ONLINE CLASS ONLY for HBSE II. You will meet on Campus with your new Professor (Furness) and Course at your designated time. This way, you can focus on the new requirements for the new professor etc. Feel free to use your class time to catch up on your reading for our class as well...there will be a "discussion" set up for this day on Blackboard. You will need to be reading chapters 7 & 8 (quiz in 2 weeks) and through page 89 of 19 Minutes. The updated Syllabus will be online before class begins and I will bring updated timeline to class, but I'd rather not waste all of that paper. Much of it is the same as HBSE I.

January 19, 2008: HOLIDAY!
Can't get to DC for Inauguration? Here is an article on other ideas and way to celebrate!


January 26: On campus, regular class. Quiz: Chapter 7 AND Chapter 8. Mini- exam on 19 minutes through page 89. IF YOU READ THE WHOLE THING ALREADY, DON'T SPOIL IT FOR OTHERS (do a quick re-scan to see where the class discussion will end- your fellow classmates get MAD at spoilers).

Something to think about: Professional presentation skills will be important in the next semester. Proper use of grammar, speaking clearly and succinctly will be important to your grade and to your attaining a Master's Degree.

Trauma, Children- An International and Relevant View

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Divorce Mistakes

Visual Collage: Divorce and its Effects on Children

Online Post/ Class for Next Week

Since there is no BB at the moment, I thought I would post the topic of this coming week here. Then, for those of you who want it now, have it now. The motivation is impressive! I will also post video clips here to assist with processing the material from the chapter (7).

Discussion Topic: How can Social Workers help children cope with the aftermath of disasters (think Katrina, the Jackson Tornado, a future atomic bomb)? What do children feel? Is it the same as adults?

Finally- an emotional disaster for children: divorce or death of a parent...what is more difficult for a child?

What "red flag" symptoms will you see in children who have been through a disaster?

Please support your ideas and provide the website links below your post. (When BB is up, you need to respond to at least two other students).

Welcome Back!

I hope you all had wonderful holidays :)
Here is a reminder of our next couple of weeks.

Blackboard Update: Not sure what is going on, but I am going back and forth with them trying to get it figured out. I will have a post due, but it will just be before our next in person meeting. I will let you know once BB is back up and running for the "new" course.

In the meantime, read 19 Minutes (which so many of you gave me very happy feedback about tonight!)...and Chapter 7. Jump in to chapter 8 if you have already read chapter 7 and are ready for the quiz. Can it hurt to be ahead? :)

January 12, 2009: ONLINE CLASS ONLY for HBSE II. You will meet on Campus with your new Professor (Furness) and Course at your designated time. This way, you can focus on the new requirements for the new professor etc. Feel free to use your class time to catch up on your reading for our class as well...there will be a "discussion" set up for this day on Blackboard. You will need to be reading chapter 7 (quiz next week) and through page 89 of 19 Minutes. The updated Syllabus will be online before class begins and I will bring updated timeline to class, but I'd rather not waste all of that paper. Much of it is the same as HBSE I.

January 19, 2008: On campus, regular class. Quiz: Chapter 7. Mini- exam on 19 minutes through page 89. IF YOU READ THE WHOLE THING ALREADY, DON'T SPOIL IT FOR OTHERS (do a quick re-scan to see where the class discussion will end- your fellow classmates get MAD at spoilers).

Something to think about: Professional presentation skills will be important in the next semester. Proper use of grammar, speaking clearly and succinctly will be important to your grade and to your attaining a Master's Degree.

Back in the Office on January 5 2009

Hello Everyone...don't expect to hear from me via phone or email-I'm not checking it right now...I may check in before that, but please don't expect that.

Please feel free to drop by, I will be in all day Monday, January 5, and if you had an email that we need to meet, we need to meet, before class.

Feel free to call me if you want to make sure that I am in that day! Office hours begin again (appointments) on January 14.

Happy New Year!

Dr. Holmes

CDC REPORT OUT ON CHILD INJURY AND DEATH

Report lists top causes of accidental child injury and death
Wed, Dec 10, 2008 (HealthDay News) — Motor vehicle crashes and falls cause most of the unintentional child and teen injuries and deaths in the United States, a new government report shows.
From 2001 to 2006, about 55 million children and teens (9.2 million a year) were treated at emergency departments for unintentional injuries, say researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Falls caused the majority of non-fatal injuries (about 2.8 million a year), while most deaths were transportation-related -- about 8,000 deaths a year involved a motor vehicle occupant, pedestrian or cyclist.
The report said falls were associated with more than half of nonfatal injuries involving children younger than 1, while transportation-related injuries and deaths were highest among teens aged 15 to 19.
Among the other key findings in the report:
On average, 12,175 children aged 0 to 19 years died each year in the United States from an unintentional injury.
Overall, the highest fatality rates were among occupants of motor vehicles.
The leading causes of injury death differed by age group. For children younger than 1, two-thirds of injury deaths were due to suffocation. Drowning was the leading cause of injury death for those aged 1 to 4. For children aged 5 to 19, the majority of injury deaths were due to being an occupant in a motor vehicle traffic crash.
Children aged 1 to 4 had the highest nonfatal injury rates due to poisoning and falls.
Males were nearly twice as likely as females to die as a result of unintentional injuries.
Risk for injury death varied by race, with the highest rates among American Indian and Alaska Natives and the lowest rates among Asians or Pacific Islanders. Overall death rates for whites and blacks were similar.
Injury death rates varied by state, depending upon the cause of death. Northeastern states had the lowest overall injury death rates. Fire and burn death rates were highest in some of the southern states. Death rates from transportation-related injuries were highest in some southern states and some states of the upper plains and lowest in states in the northeast region.
Five causes accounted for the majority of nonfatal injuries. Falls was the leading cause of nonfatal injury for all age groups younger than 15. For children aged 0 to 9, the next two leading causes were being struck by or against an object and animal bites or insect stings. For children aged 10 to 14, the next leading causes were being struck by or against an object and overexertion. For children aged 15 to 19, the three leading causes of nonfatal injuries were being struck by or against an object, falls and motor vehicle occupant injuries.
The CDC report was released to coincide with the launch of the 2008 World Report on Child Injury Prevention by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
"Injuries are among the most under-recognized public health problems facing the United States today," Grant Baldwin, director of the CDC's Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, wrote in the report's foreword.
"About 20 children die every day from a preventable injury -- more than die from all diseases combined. Injuries requiring medical attention or resulting in restricted activity affect approximately 20 million children and adolescents and cost $17 billion annually in medical costs," Baldwin wrote. "Today, we recognize that these injuries, like the diseases that once killed children, are predictable, preventable and controllable."
"Injury risks change as our children grow and we want them to be appropriately protected as they develop. We encourage parents to be vigilant and to understand that there are proven ways to help reduce injuries at each life stage," Dr. Ileana Arias, director of CDC's Injury Center, said in an agency news release.
To help parents and caregivers prevent child and teen injuries, the CDC has introduced the "Protect the Ones You Love" initiative. Details can be found at www.cdc.gov/safechild.

ALL GRADES ARE IN WEB ADVISOR!

I will be in on Monday Morning. Please feel free to call me after 10am (or come in). It is nearly 10:30 pm on Friday night and I am just getting ready to leave the office. So please, let me have some time over the weekend to regroup.

I still want to meet with several of you, so do expect some type of communication from me early in the week.

Happy Holidays, please enjoy your weekend.

Dr. Holmes

Professor Stalking

Hi Everyone. I think that you are all wonderful. But NO MORE random calls "just wondering" okay?

I can't get anything done. If I have asked you to call me, call me (I have had more than 20 of these types of calls today). And please don't call until you have your paper in front of you and you are asking me something specific.

I am not answering questions about a) your grade (any of them).. What is available (meaning, your grade is done) is in BB. If you did the extra credit, you can see it in there and that means that I can too. If you can't, I can't.

b)math. Do your own math. If you can't figure it out, call your friends.

I have one brain, one body and two hands. You can't expect me to take your calls, be availble in my office to you, at home, at midnight at 6 am, grade 450 pages plus of (first round) papers and then another 15 (10 pages) today (are you kidding me?). I have to read, write, answer the phone, respond to emails and post in Blackboard all at the same time? Try to do math? Not possible.

The rampant plagiarism has ruined any timeline that I had.

I'm done ranting. Your final grade should show up my Monday at midnight. ;)

If you get less than an "A" on the final paper...

I need to go through your paper with you. So, either call me with your paper in front of you so I can refer you to areas of concern or come meet with me in person. I will be here until 5 today (Weds) and all day Thursday. If we already met and I went over your paper with you and you have it back, you are done already.

Thanks!

Dr. Holmes

Drop in Schedule

ALL DAY WEDNESDAY

not in the office on tuesday...call my cell phone if it is important. :)

Course and Professor Evaluation

If you have not been able to do your evaluation due to the weather alerts etc., please email me at kholmes@uu.edu. We can fax it to you (probably tomorrow) and you can fax it back to Kim in the Social Work office.

Thanks,

Dr. Holmes

If your paper didn't make it in by noon to 1pm...BB Deadline

You had better send me an email with your reasons (and immediate remedy). Point deductions begin after 1pm. If not received by thursday at noon, you will receive an incomplete and will not be allowed to move forward in the program.

I've gone ahead and extended the BB deadline by 12 hours. Just get everything in to BB by midnight.

Happy Holidays!

Dr. Holmes

Updated HBSE II Schedule

January 5, 2009: Mandatory Program meeting (s) at regular class times. Be there! Make sure you get into the new Blackboard classroom and "check in" by midnight- you actually have access 2 or 3 days prior if you want to check in before Monday.

January 12, 2009: ONLINE CLASS ONLY for HBSE II. You will meet on Campus for your new Professor and Course at the designated time. This way, you can focus on the new requirements for the new professor etc. Feel free to use your class time to catch up on your reading for our class as well...there will be a "discussion" set up for that day on Blackboard. You will need to be reading chapter 7 (quiz next week) and through page 89 of 19 Minutes. The updated Syllabus will be online before class begins and I will bring updated timeline to class, but I'd rather not waste all of that paper. Much of it is the same as HBSE I.

January 19, 2008: On campus, regular class. Quiz: Chapter 7. Mini- exam on 19 minutes through page 89. IF YOU READ THE WHOLE THING ALREADY, DON'T SPOIL IT FOR OTHERS (do a quick re-scan to see where the class discussion will end- your fellow classmates get MAD at spoilers).

Something to think about: Professional presentation skills will be important in the next semester. Proper use of grammar, speaking clearly and succinctly will be important to your grade and to your attaining a Master's Degree.

See you soon, have a wonderful break!

Dr. Holmes

Weather Alert, Campus Closing

Campus closes at 1:30pm.

Please note the weather advisory for this afternoon and evening:

Issued by The National Weather Service
Memphis, TN
5:17 am CST, Mon., Dec. 15, 2008

... ICE STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 AM CST TUESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED AN ICE STORM WARNING... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 AM CST TUESDAY. THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

MOSTLY LIGHT FREEZING RAIN WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON... BUT THE FREEZING RAIN WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY TONIGHT.

ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF 1/10 OF AN INCH OR LESS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON RESULTING IN HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. MORE SIGNIFICANT AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT WITH BETWEEN 1/4 AND 1/2 INCH ICE ACCUMULATIONS.

THE ICE STORM WARNING MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED INTO THE DAY TUESDAY IN LATER FORECASTS.

AN ICE STORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. COMMERCE WILL LIKELY BE SEVERELY IMPACTED. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL... KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT... FOOD... AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY. ICE ACCUMULATIONS AND WINDS WILL LIKELY LEAD TO SNAPPED POWER LINES AND FALLING TREE BRANCHES THAT ADD TO THE DANGER.

More Information
... SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED ACROSS PARTS OF THE MID-SOUTH BY TUESDAY MORNING...

.AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE QUICKLY SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE MID-SOUTH TODAY. SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL SPREAD FROM NORTHEAST ARKANSAS TO NEAR THE INTERSTATE 40 CORRIDOR BY NOON... THEN INTO PARTS OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI BY MID-AFTERNOON. OCCASIONAL FREEZING RAIN... MOSTLY LIGHT... WILL DEVELOP BEHIND THE COLD FRONT TODAY... RESULTING IN HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. THERE MAY BE A BREAK IN THE FREEZING RAIN DURING THE DAY. HOWEVER... THE MORE SIGNIFICANT AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AS THE FREEZING RAIN INCREASES. SLEET ACCUMULATIONS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE TONIGHT FROM NORTHEAST ARKANSAS ACROSS THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL INTO NORTHWEST TENNESSEE.

WINTER STORM AND ICE STORM WARNINGS MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED INTO TUESDAY FOR PARTS OF THE AREA. IN ADDITION... FREEZING RAIN ADVISORIES MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED FOR PARTS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT JUST SOUTH OF THE ICE STORM WARNING TO ACCOUNT FOR MINOR ICE ACCUMULATIONS.