Title of the Learning Resource (Change the title above to be the title of the learning resource and make it a link to the MERLOT detail record page.) Your name, department, and institution (Add your contact information here - if you wish, you can add your email address)

Why use this resource? Use this section to briefly describe what motivated you to use this learning resource. For example, you may want to discuss a particular learning problem that your students face, or difficlty in teaching a particular concept that is hard for students' to visualize. Be sure this section reflects your experience and your voice. While snapshots are scholarship, we also want the reader to know who you are, and what you've experienced! This is a first person tale. Background Add some information about the discipline, type of course, learning objectives, and types of learners for which the resource was designed. It's important to our readers that they know enough about your situation that they can adapt the resources to their situation. This kind of backgroup information is necessary for users to make this kind of judgement call.

Learning Activities Describe how you use the resource with your students. If it is a part of a larger assignment, describe the assignment and other resources that are necessary. To ensure others' ability to learn from your experience, details are important. While in general, snapshots should be short (and pithy) don't skimp on details that others' might learn from. Impact of Use on Teaching and Learning Did use of the resource solve the problem that motivated you to use the resource? How has use of the resource affected student learning or your teaching? Did you experience any unintended results? What were they? Describe your assessment of the resource and the results. Include or link to assessment tools, example student work or resources that demonstrate the change. Assessment need not be formal, you might want to report on comments from your students or how responses to certain assignments improved (or stayed the same, or....). Links to assessment tools, no matter how formal or informal are great ways to give users new ideas.

Tips for Teaching What advice do you have for others who might want to use this learning resource? What did you learn about using it? What challenges did you confront when using it? What did you like about using it? How might you revise the resource and adapt it to better meet you or your students needs? This section is particularly important to those who might want to try using this item - what do they need to know to be successful? Recommendations Do you have recommendations for the author or to others who are continuing the further development and extension of this resource? Quite simply, authors love getting feedback on their work - please make suggestions - right now, we're not automated enough to send that feedback directly to an author, so you might want to send them an email and direct them to your snapshot in MERLOT. Authors may want to add this to their teaching portfolios.