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Vicki Davis

Aung San Suu Kyi interview with Prof. Boyer's World Regions class at Virginia Tech on V... - 1 views

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    Here is the video recording of the skype interview with Professor Boyer's World Regions class at Virginia Tech. I blogged about this Sunday. If you're studying Burma you'll want to watch this exclusive interveiw.
Vicki Davis

Why Steve Jobs isn't Time's Person of the Year - The Washington Post - 10 views

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    Lots of conversation about why Steve Jobs wasn't named the Time Person of the year. This would be a fascinating discussion for a social studies or current events class. Who would you name as the person of the year and why.
Ted Sakshaug

rayogram NEWScan - 0 views

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    Today's front page from major newspapers
Vicki Davis

The Week in Rap - 1 views

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    EAch week the news of the week is posted in rap style format in a classroom-friendly format to this website. For government or current events - maybe this will help.
Vicki Davis

Live Piracy Map - 0 views

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    Interesting map showing live piracy incidents in 2008.
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    Google map showing all live piracy incidents in the world - this would fascinating to discuss this in a current events class and correlate the incidents of piracy with political regimes and other correlated items. Present to the class- here is the map -- figure out why this may be happening in these places.
Ted Sakshaug

TimeSpace: World - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    Shared on our listserv this AM. Send this to your Social Studies teachers. VERY nice!
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    TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe. Discover news hot-spots where coverage is clustered. Use the timeline to illustrate peaks in coverage, and customize your news searches to a particular day or specific hour. (Many Washington Post stories appear at midnight; others are published throughout the day as news happens)
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    current events follower. Great for interactive white boards
Dave Truss

2010 Full Year In Focus.pdf Getty Images - 18 views

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    Amazing photos of 2010
Ted Sakshaug

10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris - 0 views

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    Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.
Amy Marlow

The Learning Network - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com - 12 views

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    times' teaching & learning section, with lesson plans, current event quizzes, and puzzles.
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    The New York Times has a learning network with all types of videos to share. Lesson plans, student opinions, film festivals, and a student reading contest for the month of July.
Vicki Davis

Kids News and News Articles for Kids - GoGoNews - - 3 views

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    "Big news for little people" this website is targeted news for kids aged 7-14 and may be something you can use in your classroom. What a fascinating discussion you could have about July 13th's topic the "crazy basketball court." 
Vicki Davis

6 Q'S ABOUT THE NEWS - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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    Love the 6 questions about the news from the New York Times. Some great resources here.
Vicki Davis

U.S. manufacturing producing more with fewer workers | Pew Research Center - 0 views

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    Fascinating fact that our manufacturing sector is producing more goods with less people, making it very efficient and strong. This would be an interesting way to teach older children about data and charts.
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