Collection of free primary source material from around the world. Searchable by place, time period, topic, or institution. And it looks cool. The map interface will help students visualize where resources originate and will allow them to easily think about topics from a multicultural point of view.
The idea of a newsGenerator is to gather the most recent headlines relating to a particular curriculum subject based on specific keywords/phrases. The most important news items will be displayed on a webpage like this, and can be subscribed to as an RSS feed or a widget which automatically updates each and every hour.