Conclusion
Our hope is that the Internet will provide a means to help build a community of educators that can, collectively, evolve current chemistry courses to a structure that better engages students and improves their ability to reason about chemistry in their lives. I believe my involvement in the NSDL has helped me better craft goals that are ambitious but compatible with life at the interface of the disjoint worlds of education and technology, and improved my ability to work towards and monitor progress towards those goals. I am hoping that my hopes for this effort are not symptoms of a manic phase. But, in any case, the friends I have made through the NSDL make it rewarding to join in and continue pushing against the wall. As one of my favorite colleagues in the NSDL said to me, while I was in a somewhat depressive phase, “You have to keep fighting the good fight”.