Week 4 - PSPBL and the Wonders of an Online Community!

I have discovered another EXCELLENT resource – the Police Society for Problem Based Learning (PSPBL) website.  I had to pay $50 to become a member but they have some really great articles available to “members only”. 
They also have a discussion forum but no one really participates in it yet.  I have emailed the site admin, Roger, with my interest and goals for acquiring research on PSPBL and he will reach out to some people he knows.  I am establishing a community! 

Hooray!  So far, I have connected with several people via the website and other email correspondence.  They include Valerie Herndon at the FBI academy, Cecil Queen at Ferris University, Greg Saville (former RCMP and popular PSPBL researcher) and Gerry Cleveland, Eric Werth and Lonnie Croal.  Croal is especially cool as he did his thesis based on primary research at Edmonton police service and I lived in Edmonton for 2+ years.  I am so pleased that there are so many people willing to help and many of them are supportive.  Some have even asked me to forward them my completed work!!

www.edmontonpolice.ca

Side note:  I signed up for RefWorks (http://www.refworks.com/) to try to manage all of these sources and papers.  The website is not very easy to manipulate, so I suspect I will just keep copying and pasting the sources as best I can.  Apa6 and I are definitely NOT friends right now. J