Class meeting four, and we've made a breakthrough as a group. I do assign homework after the first class, but after that, the class starts to define their "homework" based on that day's work.

Today was the beginning of differences in what people assign themselves (different distances on the same trajectory). Everyone is writing and then editing an article for a refereed international journal, so the overall project is the same for everyone, but the amount each will need to do varies greatly.

This is the first semester I've used Google Docs. I'm quite excited about it, because participants in my courses are getting more and better feedback. OTOH, they are all PhD and Postdoc, and used to using EndNote, which Google Docs unforunately does not support (it strips the notes). GD also doesn't support some of the common visual formats, which is fair enough. Some journals don't either.