Personal+Finance+Online

Hi Everyone--

If you've found this, you're at the right place for our Spring Semester AP Econ Wiki. Rather than having you do a course outline like the fall class did, I decided to have you find as many resources for personal finance on the internet as you can. We're supposed to cover personal finance in class, and it's an EXTREMELY important topic. I'm not joking. Financial messes cause lots of personal and professional problems, even for the smartest people. So we want to try to learn a few things; at the same time, we want to gather some resources for learning later on.

Here's what you'll do: Section I--Finances for College Students and Single Adults Section II--Finances for Families Section III--Retirement and Legalities Section IV--Pitfalls to Financial Health or Happiness Section V--Financial Experts to Explore
 * 1) There are five categories of topics. Click on the one where your topic is. If you don't remember, just keep clicking until you find it.
 * 2) Type out a short (50 words or less) description of your topic, explaining how it relates to personal finance if it's not obvious, and describing the resources you have chosen to link to it.
 * 3) Look around the internet for articles, resources, videos, cartoons, etc. that directly correlate to the economic aspects of your topic.
 * 4) Place links for these next to your topic title or written information.
 * 5) Now go to the discussion pages and begin a discussion on two of your resources. These should be two separate discussions and should have the link included in the first page of the discussion, if possible. Make each of these initial discussions around 250 words. You can summarize the content, explain why it's important, or give your reaction to the information there.
 * 6) Once you've done your own resources in this way, it's time to look around at other people's resources.
 * 7) View a resource, then find the discussion section for it. Write a response to the original content or to the current topic being discussed.
 * 8) You need to respond to a minimum of four discussions and write a minimum of 1000 words total.
 * 9) When you respond, please put the number of words you wrote in parentheses afterwards. If you don't want to count, just type your response into the wiki, copy and paste it into a word processing program and use the word count feature. (42 words)
 * 10) Feel free to check out the Fall AP class wiki to see what they did and how they did it by clicking on the AP Macroeconomics heading over on the left sidebar. I've locked all the pages now so it can't be altered, but you can see what they did.