For this week, we were assigned to complete an online scavenger hunt. Initially, I was extremely excited to begin this journey. During my sophomore year of high school, our class field trip was a day-long scavenger hunt through historic Boston. Bandanas, team t-shirts, and all, I led my team of ten tenth graders to victory. However, this scavenger hunt proved to be much more difficult than locating hidden historical artifacts in downtown Boston. I’ve always considered myself a relatively advanced googler, usually being able to locate any piece of research I needed for classwork through googling. However, seeing that google was not bringing up the information I desired, I had to turn elsewhere.

1. Finding an op-ed on labor dispute involving teachers from before 1970:

I utilized our library resources, shocking, I know! And I typed some things into proquest. Specifically, I looked into The Proquest Education database. After searching through “1950 teachers labor union,” “1940 teachers labor union,” I finally came across a useable article when searching these keywords along with the year “1930.” Eventually, I came across this article: Yay!

But now comes the embarrassing part… That was all I was able to locate in my searching quest. Scavenger hunt: You got me. You win this time. But after wasting an hour of googling, I’ve learned that library resources and databases are the way to go. Until next time, torturous online search.