Academic Commons aspires to become the SlashDot (http://slashdot.org) for those of us who traffic in the often lonely interstices of academic technology, new media, faculty development, liberal learning, scholarly communication and the library of the future. We're re-working our site so it will be easier to link, easier to comment, easier to track those areas that you find interesting or at least useful. We need help, though. That's where you come in. We are looking for a number of courageous souls to agree to take half an hour a week for an entire semester to contribute to our site.

As the fall semester comes to an end, and the year 2007 approaches, the editors at Academic Commons write to ask you to consider taking some time in the month of January to reflect on what has happened this year on your campus and in your various professions. Please consider using the Academic Commons website to share your news and experiences about new systems implemented, about new pedagogies enabled by these systems, and how they may have helped (or not!) transform in some interesting way how our students interacted with the curriculum this year. We are interested in victories small and large--or, yes, spectacular failures, as even those can provide a wealth of information.