Peer-assessment, the evaluation of student work by their peers, was commonly used in my elementary and high school classes. At the university level, peer-assessment was a regular component of group projects and presentations in several of my courses.

I first wrote the original version of EcoBeaker for a class in ecological methods being taught for ecology graduate students in the marine biology lab in Eilat, Israel.

There have been lots of rumors flying around about a new edition of Amazon.com's Kindle designed for textbooks.

I have always been a reader and look forward to my lunch hour as much for the chance to open a book as for the chance to catch a bite. Today, it was Richard Russo’s Bridge of Sighs, a coming-of-age novel set in upstate New York.