Hi, I am a "Finkite" (for lack of a better title). I attended Dee Finks's seminar in Chicago in May of this year and bought into his beliefs on course design. I then spent the summer redesigning my community health nursing course into his recommnded format. I was very nervous about introducing this new course design to my nursing students because they have only had lectures and Powerpoint handouts their entire nursing school experience. As Dee suggested, I used the "What do you want to learn the most about in this course and your college career?" question (the approach is on the website under resource downloads - "Imact of First Day Questions) and it worked great. Not 1 student seemed distressed by our new plan to pratice learning and applying learning in new situations during our class times. They agreed they could read the text and learn the course basics on their own. In fact, the next day, 1 of the students stopped into my office to thank me for taking the time and effort to redesign the course to improve her learning! I was shocked but happy. We're off to a good start. Thanks Kathleen Lux