Collaborative writing assignments

Many teachers like to do collaborative assignments, but find it difficult to structure an assignment so that all participate equally. This site http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/pop2l.cfm gives good suggestions about projects. It also has suggestions about peer review and grading.

Winners of Merlot 2010 Exemplary Online Learning Resources

Merlot, the online source for multimedia learning and teaching has just announced its 2010 awards. All can be found by searching Merlot.
The winners are announced at:
http://grapevine.merlot.org/#features01

Cheat sheets online

Students have used CliffsNots for a long time. Now, according to an article in the New York Times, they are turning to their computer, their IPod or their cell phones to get the same information for free. The problem is when this substitutes for the reading of the real book. The newcomer is Schnoop which contains a feature called "Why Should I Care?" and trivia, such as the fact that Shakespeare probably imagined Hamlet as heavy. Gertrude, his mother, notes he is ""fat and scant of breath" (5.2.269) during his duel with Laertes." Reference