If you have not discovered MERLOT yet, you are missing out on a great resource. MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. If you are teaching an on-line or blended course and would like to plan a virtual field-trip for your students, I encourage you to view Rodica Neamtu's podcast (about 51 minutes long) Crossroads of the Digital and Real Worlds: Virtual Field Trips for Online and Blended Courses. One of the foundational theories used in the scholarship of teaching and learning is Bloom's Taxonomy. A committee of colleges, led by Benjamin Bloom in 1956, identified three domains of educational activities: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills. This includes the recall or recognition of specific facts, procedural patterns, and concepts that serve in the development of intellectual abilities and skills. The affective domain (Krathwohl, Bloom, Masia, 1973) includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes. The psychomotor domain (Simpson, 1972) includes physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill areas. Development of these skills requires practice and is measured in terms of speed, precision, distance, procedures, or techniques in execution. The application of this information provides a very solid foundation for those of us who are involved in the academic world, especially at a teaching-oriented institution like LU.