 How do your students collaborate with each other in your courses? What dimension does this add to their learning? Collaboration has really become an essential part of my teaching of my courses. And it works at a lot of different levels. Primarily my large U.R. course, I have two assignments which encourages them, even forces them to collaborate in several different ways. The first assignment is a dramatic presentation portfolio. And in this assignment they have to choose one play in a group, a group of about five or six students. They have to choose one play and in this play they have to do a presentation. What's important is I don't want them to do the whole play and I don't want them to summarize the play or do a highlight kind of thing of the play where they do one famous scene after another. What they need to do is focus on one little 15 minute section and they need to come up with a new way of interpreting it. I ask them to think about a 20th century adaptation of the play. How would they set this play in the 20th century? That forces them to not just accept what words are there and what stage directions are there and what assumptions that they had about the play, but to think creatively about how they would set this play into motion. And I ask them to think about how they can present this in such a way that the rest of their classmates are going to see the play in a new way. It's going to shed new light upon the play. They're going to really give it a twist. They're going to give it a spin that they haven't seen before. And they work on that in groups. They divide up as people acting as a director or a couple of directors, as set designers. And then they have to write as a group about each aspect that they worked on in the play, about why their set was the way it was, about why they portrayed the characters the way they did, about why they edited the text the way they did, because I encourage them to do creative editing, too. That's like most contemporary productions with Shakespeare. They're not done of the whole text, but of an edited text. So I ask them to write about each part of that so that the students have to work collaboratively to put on this production, but they also have to work collaboratively to write. It would be nice if I was King of Scotland, just told me that it would come true. But I'm trying to think twice before I figure out of this action how to kill off them. I've got to be edited, edited, edited. I've got to be edited, edited.