In this response to, "SoTL Commons Conference: A Spirit of Inquiry" (Margaret Davis, Kera Watkins, and Deborah Allen, "International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,"v3 n2 Jul 2009), Griebenow adds his personal impressions as an "SOTL newbie." He states that many scientists have an idea of scholarship, but not of SoTL, and that it cannot be overestimated what exposure of SoTL to new faculty can do to improve their teaching and learning.