MERLOT • 401 Golden Shore, California State University, Office of the Chancellor Long Beach, CA 90802

January 12, 2010

Valerie Henderson, Executive Director

The Public Media Foundation at Northeastern University

221 Lake Hall

Boston, MA 02135

Dear Ms. Henderson

Your scholarly work in instructional technology, Scribbling Women, has been peer reviewed and

published in MERLOT – the Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching). The

MERLOT project is an international initiative enabling faculty to integrate technology into higher

education. MERLOT is supported by 27 systems and institutions of higher education as well as the

National Science Foundation. Over 150 faculty members from these institutions have been performing

the peer review of instructional technology, modeled after the peer review processes for research and

scholarship. The peer review report written by the MERLOT English Editorial Board is published on the

MERLOT website and presented below.

The MERLOT project (http://www.merlot.org) is an online community of faculty and institutions

collaborating to increase the quantity of high quality web-based, interactive teaching and learning

materials. The MERLOT website is a free “gateway” for these web-based materials. Finding web-

based materials to incorporate into one’s course is just the first step for faculty; faculty must also

decide if the materials are correct, effective teaching-learning tools, and easy to use. You can obtain

more details about the MERLOT project, the Peer Review Process, and evaluation standards at

The MERLOT English Editorial Board identified your work as worthy of peer review and assigned two

(2) MERLOT Editorial Board Members to review work using the three review guidelines:

1. Quality of content.

2. Potential effectiveness as a teaching-learning tool.

3. Ease of use

Members of the Editorial Board communicate with the authors to ensure comprehensive review of

the materials. The reviews are posted on the MERLOT website so others will have the benefit of

reading about your good work.

The Peer Review Report of your work can be found at:

In summary, the MERLOT English Editorial Board wishes to acknowledge the valuable contributions

you have made to advancing the teaching and learning within the English discipline. Your work is a

model of the scholarship of teaching that can benefit faculty teaching and student learning around the

world.

Sincerely,

Cathy Swift, Ph.D.

Director – Academic Partner Services – cswift@calstate.edu