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Now that we have all had time to settle into the new semester, I hope it is not too late to hear comments from those people who were able to attend the "Teaching Early Drama with Modern Technology: The Message and the Media" session at the MLA conference in Chicago -- or from people who have something to contribute to the topic. To refresh people's memory: Leslie Harris of Susquehana University "The Shakespeare Multimedia Project: Using Hypertext to Teach Early Modern Drama" Last month, Dr. Harris posted, in REED-L, a short paper describing his project, a classroom excercise in which small groups of undergraduate students choose a brief Shakespeare passage, and create hyperlinks that expand upon and illuminate the passage. The student groupss found the process rewarding, largely because they were in control of their own learning process. Dr. Harris discussed his experiences with how the students' differing levels of computer experience affected the work they did, and how he handles grading the multimedia assignments. David Salz of the State University of New York, Stony Brook "The Democratization of Specialized Scholarly Resources: Putting the Tools of the Advanced Scholar in the Hands of the Beginner." Dr. Salz incorporated an on-line review of Voyageur's Macbeth CD-ROM, and proceeded with a demonstration of the Medieval Hypermedia Project, currently in development at SUNY Stony Brook, Trinity College and the CUNY Graduate School; the project will eventually provide all the Townley texts in an easily-accessible hypertext format that is designed to tie all information very closely with the text, which remains on screen in one window at all times -- this anchoring arrangement prevents the "lost in hyperspace" feeling that I know I feel when I dash through hyperlinked documents looking for "good stuff" and never manage either to find my way back to where I started, or to find out what I wanted in the first place. Interested persons may wish to explore the following URL for abstracts of both papers, as well as links to other areas which may be of interest: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~reed/DRAMA.HTM Dennis G. Jerz Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto [log in to unmask] (416) 944-3168