Email etiquette then dictates you should: Be as descriptive as possible in your subject line, remind him/her of any previous conversations, and make your requests very direct and explicit. Keep your email to 3 to 5 sentences if possible, Freedman advises. Busy VIP or not, the suggestions outline good etiquette for making your email more readable and actionable for anyone. While you're at it, don't forget the importance of a killer subject line. Check out the full post for more tips and advice. Photo by Ian Lamont

The points students bring up are thought-provoking. However, I'm most impressed by the questions they ask one another. They clarify and ask follow-up questions. They make inferences. They ask connecting questions and critical thinking questions. It's a messy process, but it's beautiful messy. It's art.

As long as a question is respectful, I want students to question their world. This applies to analyzing mathematical processes, thinking through social issues, making sense out of a text or analyzing the natural world for cause and effect.

I require students to ask questions before, during and after reading.

A student-run Web site at Stanford University seeks to convince students to input their class assignments to keep themselves—and their classmates—more organized. It could, founders hope, grow into a student-run course-management system.

Once one student adds an assignment in a class, everyone else in the class has it added to their calendars, as well. Ultimately, he’d like to expand the site to include social events on campus, to help students better plan every aspect of their lives. He also plans to allow students to flag incorrect assignments.