Wash hands frequently! Have the antiseptic gel or foam by the classroom/lab door so folks can cleanse both before and after use. The H1N1 is not a particularly potent strain of flu, so there's no cause for alarm, but precautions like: staying home if you are feeling flu-ish, keeping a six-foot distance whenever possible from others, carrying a personal-size hand sanitizing gel and washing hands whenever possible will go a long way to keeping folks healthy. Standard stuff, really. Unfortunately, when the H1N1 vaccine is ready, it looks like it's going to be a 2-course series, and it won't help much with the standard strain: so if you're a flu-shot regular, prepare for three this year. Ugh! V/R Alexander Waid Associate Professor of Spanish U.S. Coast Guard Academy 15 Mohegan Avenue New London, CT 06320 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************