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WVVA Cohort Graduation Ceremony/Celebration at Waynesboro County Club

August 22, 2009 from 2pm to 4:30pm

Some persons in the WVVA Cohort will graduate in May 2009. Others will finish Summer Session 1 or Fall '09. In lieu of a formal graduation ceremony at USC, there will be a graduation celebration at Waynesboro Country Club. Mark your calendars. Mak…

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At 9:08pm on January 12, 2009, Mary Mott said…: Yes, I ended up emailing back and forth with one of my classmates from last semester, and it was great. I think it is difficult to break out of the dry and formal tone of posting on class discussion boards, but if you feel strongly about a certain topic, other people seem to come out of the woodwork and things liven up! We had interesting discussions about how to provide good library service to "special needs" groups.

At 10:59pm on December 6, 2008, Mary Mott said…: Thank you for writing to me. My first class went well, and I am looking forward to taking Information Services and Sources next semester. I just wish I could meet my classmates in person. Other than that, I'm really liking being able to apply what I learn in school to my job.

At 5:59pm on May 31, 2008, Virginia Wallace said…: I look like one of those functional illiterates: "no one cannot work"! What about that double negative. :0)

At 5:57pm on May 31, 2008, Virginia Wallace said…: I did not read that article but I have seen evidence of the functional illiteracy among our youth. What worries me is that they do not see that as a problem. With computers, they believe their lives will be more visual and auditory than text!

In the World Is Flat, that very topic is covered. There are developing parts of the world whose youth understand that the computer represents science development and no one cannot work effectively or efficiently in the jobs that are available and are becoming available if that person is missing the basics of an education = reading and writing!

At 5:10pm on May 31, 2008, Barbara Dawn Fisher said…: Don't give up hope, yet! I've been inundated with emails from school and other projects I'm involved in --may be the same for others.

Did you read "Literacy: The Long View" (Lyn C. A. Gardner) in Virginia Libraries (Jan., Feb., Mar., 2008)? Scary quote: ". . .the highest levels of functional illiteracy can be found among the young, specifically in the eighteen-to thirty-year-old age bracket."

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