While checking out the ELM resources on the District 742 site, I was brought back to my high school days. One part of a social studies class I took was called CURRENT EVENTS. At that time we really had a limited number of resources to search through to write our daily journal entries. St Cloud Daily Times, Star Tribune, Time, US News and World Report, and USA Today were about our only options. Wow, ProQuest would have been awesome to have for that class. You could have even found a current event topic that would have interested you. You possibly could have found a current event and monitored the different viewpoints with the numerous options at your fingertips. One negative thing was the search feature. It seemed to have found some articles that really did not fit the search. Although, that could just be the non-techy operating the search engine.

Just started a wiki on PBWIKI. It actually was really simple. I find it very interesting that collaboration for a group project/outing/party/meeting would be really simple using a wiki. Information can be passed very easily by everyone. I can truly see why teachers ban the use of wiki's. Where is the validation of the sources? Who to say that the information was valid at one point and then changed at another point by someone else. I editing the golf club page on wikipedia encyclopedia to state that private clubs require members to spend minimums on food and beverages monthly.