Click here to view the January 12th webinar featuring Bethany K. Laursen, PhD, Assistant Dean, Michigan State University, Graduate School. In this webinar, Dr Laursen provides a background and general principles of tools and tool use, especially in cross-disciplinary research settings. This webinar sets the stage for the next 4 monthly webinars in the series “Boundary Spanning Tools for Team Research”, an idea that she conceptualized for INTEREACH. For this webinar series, Dr Laursen also created a “DIY Boundary Spanning Field Notebook” to facilitate a collaborative, co-learning practice for learning and implementing the tools (8 in total) that will be shared in this series. You can still get your copy at this link! She then covers 5 principles of tool suitability, stressing their importance in implementing these abstract concepts into practice: 1. Systems, 2. Systems of Systems, 3. Four Basic Features, 4. Affordances, 5. Eudainomics (the proposed study and practice of what generally makes a tool contribute to the Good Life).