Sometimes, one is asked to teach a new course. In such a circumstance, what is one to do. Judging by the various listservs, e.g. Management Education, the most popular thing to do is to see what others are doing when they have to teach that type of course.
Now finding that information got a little bit easier with Dan Cohen's very clever Syllabus Finder.
Dan's also a leading light in the Zotero project that adds a citation/bibliography engine to FireFox
