Current Events Reflection

Over the past year I have been working with articles that dealt with the domestic policy of events around the world. I feel that I have learned a lot about current events, even though at times it was difficult to find articles that related to the topic of domestic policy. Writing summaries and connecting articles to one another was a huge part of how I understood what was going on in each country. Prior to tagging articles and writing up summaries, I basically had no knowledge of nearly half the articles that I found. Honestly, I would still have no knowledge if it wasn't assigned to do so. I probably will still read the news, but I will definitely not write summaries of the things I learned :) . A lot of the news that I found was very different from the daily life of America. I found myself reading about more violence and horrible, poor conditions people lived in. If I ever had to do this project/assignment again, I would consider more sources than just the BBC. Being one to not keep up with history/politics/current events, I didn’t mind doing this project. As for the requirements that the project held, everything was fine. The only thing that I felt didn’t succeed was trying to make a Wikispace with our group members. Even though we began to use the Wikispace, it did not go over to great (and was not used as much as it was probably intended.)