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As an educator, I am always looking for new ways to inspire students and to make the ideas, art, and politics expressed by Morris over one hundred years ago relevant to the 21 st -century digital scholar.   I occasionally teach a class titled William Morris and His World that examines Morris in the context of the Arts & Crafts movement worldwide with a major emphasis to connect the values of the Arts & Crafts movement to today’s world.   I do this by using a variety of active learning assignments based on problem solving and creative thinking.   In my class students learn by doing and as a result come away (or at least I hope that they do) with a deeper understanding of the period while at the same time completing assignments that fall outside of the traditional research paper.  For example, students are required to keep a Design Inspiration Journal .   They are asked to think of themselves as a “design muse” for William Morris.   In the class we talk about how Morris and memb