More On The Nobel Peace Prize
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, but will be unable to accept it because he’s in prison.
Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Nobel Peace Prize.
Activist Laureates is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.
Nobel Winners Past is a slideshow from Slate.
Why the Nobel Peace award upset China is an article from CNN with many related videos.
CNN Student News - Chile Mine Rescue
As of the time of this writing, eight miners have been rescued from the collapsed mine in Chile. If you're planning to talk about the story in your classroom this morning, CNN Student News has a good segment about process of getting the miners out of the mine. Watch the video below.
Don't forget, CNN Student News provides discussion guides and PDF maps to accompany each story.
AP Timeline Reader - News Timelines
The AP Timeline Reader is a new experimental tool developed by the Associated Press. TheTimeline Reader is intended to give readers a way to create custom timeline displays of the type of news stories that matter to them. AP gives you ten news categories to pick to display on your timeline. You can select all ten categories, just one category, or a number in between. Once you've made your selections, news stories will be displayed on your timeline. Place your cursor over a story to enlarge it and read it. You can also place it in a que to read later.
Applications for EducationThe AP Timeline Reader could be a nice visual way for students to browse for news stories that appeal to them.
Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
The Week in Rap - Fun News Summaries
Ten by Ten - Visual Links to World News
Review the News With the CNN Challenge
Tech Tools for Teachers #14 BTN
Each week Simon Collier and I collaborate on an email newsletter for teachers called Tech Tools for Teachers. Click here to find an archive of past newsletters and to subscribe.This week we review the website Behind the News (BTN)
Behind the News (BTN) is a fantastic Australian site by the ABC that helps students learn about current issues and events around the world. Each Tuesday a new episode of BTN is released online comprising of about 5 different stories that are each under 5 minutes long. The stories can be watched individually on the BTN website and also screen on ABC1 television (currently Tuesdays at 10am and Wednesdays at 10.30am).
Apart from the videos, the BTN website also contains activity sheets, links, quizzes, polls etc for follow up work. After you watch an episode you can visit the Guestbook on the BTN site to leave a comment.
While BTN is promoted for students in upper primary and secondary school, I have had great success using it with my Grade Two students. I incorporate a weekly BTN session into my curriculum. There are always a range of stories, many of which are less complex and can be understood by younger students. My class has had many rich discussions and experiences based on BTN stories and it is a fantastic way for students to learn about the world in which they live!
On the Teachers Page of the BTN website you will find a list of topics which you can go to to find archived BTN stories around a particular subject. Each topic collection contains a teacher resource pack with focus questions, activities and additional links. There are currently 15 topics with archived stories ranging from Water, to Natural Disasters to Space and Astronomy. Hopefully this section will continue to expand.
Tip: go to the Teachers Page and sign up to be on the mailing list. You will receive an email each Friday telling you what stories are coming out on the following Tuesday. If you are a Twitter user you can also follow BTN on Twitter for story updates.
We like BTN because it:
• is free
• is Australian
• is not geo restricted which means the videos can be streamed outside of Australia
• is presented in “plain language”
• doesn’t require a sign-up or login
• is suitable for all year levels from Grade Two to secondary school
• covers a huge range of current affairs and news topics
• can be used as a whole class on the IWB, or individually on student notebooks or classroom computers
• can be integrated into many subject areas
• can be used as a quick ten minute activity (5 minute video and 5 minute discussion) or as part of a more lengthy session with follow up activities.
Video - Oil Spill by the Numbers
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill has been spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico for more 50 days now. Time has produced a video documenting the events of the oil spill and the quantity of oil now in the Gulf of Mexico. The Oil Spill by the Numbers is embedded below.
H/T to Jeffery Hill's The English Blog.
Applications for EducationThis video could be useful for showing students the breadth of the impact of the oil spill. After watching the video you could have students develop their own timelines related to the oil spill.
“The Beautiful Game: Teaching and Learning With the World Cup”
The Beautiful Game: Teaching and Learning With the World Cup is a treasure trove of teaching ideas from The New York Times Learning Network.
I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup.
While I’m at it, I’m also adding one more resource to that list:
Here are some great soccer documentaries from David Deubelbeiss.
More On The Nobel Peace Prize
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, but will be unable to accept it because he’s in prison.
Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Nobel Peace Prize.
Activist Laureates is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.
Nobel Winners Past is a slideshow from Slate.
Why the Nobel Peace award upset China is an article from CNN with many related videos.
CNN Student News - Chile Mine Rescue
As of the time of this writing, eight miners have been rescued from the collapsed mine in Chile. If you're planning to talk about the story in your classroom this morning, CNN Student News has a good segment about process of getting the miners out of the mine. Watch the video below.
Don't forget, CNN Student News provides discussion guides and PDF maps to accompany each story.
AP Timeline Reader - News Timelines
The AP Timeline Reader is a new experimental tool developed by the Associated Press. TheTimeline Reader is intended to give readers a way to create custom timeline displays of the type of news stories that matter to them. AP gives you ten news categories to pick to display on your timeline. You can select all ten categories, just one category, or a number in between. Once you've made your selections, news stories will be displayed on your timeline. Place your cursor over a story to enlarge it and read it. You can also place it in a que to read later.
Applications for EducationThe AP Timeline Reader could be a nice visual way for students to browse for news stories that appeal to them.
Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
The Week in Rap - Fun News Summaries
Ten by Ten - Visual Links to World News
Review the News With the CNN Challenge
Tech Tools for Teachers #14 BTN
Each week Simon Collier and I collaborate on an email newsletter for teachers called Tech Tools for Teachers. Click here to find an archive of past newsletters and to subscribe.This week we review the website Behind the News (BTN)Behind the News (BTN) is a fantastic Australian site by the ABC that helps students learn about current issues and events around the world. Each Tuesday a new episode of BTN is released online comprising of about 5 different stories that are each under 5 minutes long. The stories can be watched individually on the BTN website and also screen on ABC1 television (currently Tuesdays at 10am and Wednesdays at 10.30am).
Apart from the videos, the BTN website also contains activity sheets, links, quizzes, polls etc for follow up work. After you watch an episode you can visit the Guestbook on the BTN site to leave a comment.
While BTN is promoted for students in upper primary and secondary school, I have had great success using it with my Grade Two students. I incorporate a weekly BTN session into my curriculum. There are always a range of stories, many of which are less complex and can be understood by younger students. My class has had many rich discussions and experiences based on BTN stories and it is a fantastic way for students to learn about the world in which they live!
On the Teachers Page of the BTN website you will find a list of topics which you can go to to find archived BTN stories around a particular subject. Each topic collection contains a teacher resource pack with focus questions, activities and additional links. There are currently 15 topics with archived stories ranging from Water, to Natural Disasters to Space and Astronomy. Hopefully this section will continue to expand.
Tip: go to the Teachers Page and sign up to be on the mailing list. You will receive an email each Friday telling you what stories are coming out on the following Tuesday. If you are a Twitter user you can also follow BTN on Twitter for story updates.
We like BTN because it:
• is free
• is Australian
• is not geo restricted which means the videos can be streamed outside of Australia
• is presented in “plain language”
• doesn’t require a sign-up or login
• is suitable for all year levels from Grade Two to secondary school
• covers a huge range of current affairs and news topics
• can be used as a whole class on the IWB, or individually on student notebooks or classroom computers
• can be integrated into many subject areas
• can be used as a quick ten minute activity (5 minute video and 5 minute discussion) or as part of a more lengthy session with follow up activities.
More On The Nobel Peace Prize
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, but will be unable to accept it because he’s in prison.
Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Nobel Peace Prize.
Activist Laureates is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.
Nobel Winners Past is a slideshow from Slate.
Why the Nobel Peace award upset China is an article from CNN with many related videos.
CNN Student News - Chile Mine Rescue
As of the time of this writing, eight miners have been rescued from the collapsed mine in Chile. If you're planning to talk about the story in your classroom this morning, CNN Student News has a good segment about process of getting the miners out of the mine. Watch the video below.
Don't forget, CNN Student News provides discussion guides and PDF maps to accompany each story.
More On The Nobel Peace Prize
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, but will be unable to accept it because he’s in prison.
Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Nobel Peace Prize.
Activist Laureates is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.
Nobel Winners Past is a slideshow from Slate.
Why the Nobel Peace award upset China is an article from CNN with many related videos.
Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Nobel Peace Prize.
Activist Laureates is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.
Nobel Winners Past is a slideshow from Slate.
Why the Nobel Peace award upset China is an article from CNN with many related videos.
As of the time of this writing, eight miners have been rescued from the collapsed mine in Chile. If you're planning to talk about the story in your classroom this morning, CNN Student News has a good segment about process of getting the miners out of the mine. Watch the video below.
Don't forget, CNN Student News provides discussion guides and PDF maps to accompany each story.
Don't forget, CNN Student News provides discussion guides and PDF maps to accompany each story.
AP Timeline Reader - News Timelines
Applications for Education
The AP Timeline Reader could be a nice visual way for students to browse for news stories that appeal to them.Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
The Week in Rap - Fun News Summaries
Ten by Ten - Visual Links to World News
Review the News With the CNN Challenge
Each week Simon Collier and I collaborate on an email newsletter for teachers called Tech Tools for Teachers. Click here to find an archive of past newsletters and to subscribe.
This week we review the website Behind the News (BTN)
Apart from the videos, the BTN website also contains activity sheets, links, quizzes, polls etc for follow up work. After you watch an episode you can visit the Guestbook on the BTN site to leave a comment.
While BTN is promoted for students in upper primary and secondary school, I have had great success using it with my Grade Two students. I incorporate a weekly BTN session into my curriculum. There are always a range of stories, many of which are less complex and can be understood by younger students. My class has had many rich discussions and experiences based on BTN stories and it is a fantastic way for students to learn about the world in which they live!
On the Teachers Page of the BTN website you will find a list of topics which you can go to to find archived BTN stories around a particular subject. Each topic collection contains a teacher resource pack with focus questions, activities and additional links. There are currently 15 topics with archived stories ranging from Water, to Natural Disasters to Space and Astronomy. Hopefully this section will continue to expand.
Tip: go to the Teachers Page and sign up to be on the mailing list. You will receive an email each Friday telling you what stories are coming out on the following Tuesday. If you are a Twitter user you can also follow BTN on Twitter for story updates.
We like BTN because it:
• is free
• is Australian
• is not geo restricted which means the videos can be streamed outside of Australia
• is presented in “plain language”
• doesn’t require a sign-up or login
• is suitable for all year levels from Grade Two to secondary school
• covers a huge range of current affairs and news topics
• can be used as a whole class on the IWB, or individually on student notebooks or classroom computers
• can be integrated into many subject areas
• can be used as a quick ten minute activity (5 minute video and 5 minute discussion) or as part of a more lengthy session with follow up activities.
Video - Oil Spill by the Numbers
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill has been spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico for more 50 days now. Time has produced a video documenting the events of the oil spill and the quantity of oil now in the Gulf of Mexico. The Oil Spill by the Numbers is embedded below.H/T to Jeffery Hill's The English Blog.
Applications for EducationThis video could be useful for showing students the breadth of the impact of the oil spill. After watching the video you could have students develop their own timelines related to the oil spill.
The Beautiful Game: Teaching and Learning With the World Cup is a treasure trove of teaching ideas from The New York Times Learning Network.
I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup.
While I’m at it, I’m also adding one more resource to that list:
Here are some great soccer documentaries from David Deubelbeiss.
I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup.
While I’m at it, I’m also adding one more resource to that list:
Here are some great soccer documentaries from David Deubelbeiss.
Newsweek’s Redesigned Website
Newsweek Magazine is on The Best Magazine/Newspaper Websites For Useful News & Intellectual Stimulation list.
They’ve just redesigned their website, and it looks good. It’s worth a visit.
FRONTLINE Teacher Center - Lesson Plans & More
FRONTLINE, produced by PBS, has long been an excellent provider of thought-provoking, informative, current events news programs. Nearly 100 FRONTLINE programs are available for free online viewing. To help teachers use FRONTLINE episodes in their classrooms, FRONTLINE created a teacher center. The FRONTLINE Teacher Center contains web-exclusive bonus resources (extra video clips and text) and lesson plans that teachers can download for use in their classrooms. You can search the FRONTLINE Teacher Center by subject matter, episode title, or air date. I found it easiest to browse the lessons by subject matter.
Newsweek’s Redesigned Website
Newsweek Magazine is on The Best Magazine/Newspaper Websites For Useful News & Intellectual Stimulation list.
They’ve just redesigned their website, and it looks good. It’s worth a visit.
They’ve just redesigned their website, and it looks good. It’s worth a visit.
FRONTLINE, produced by PBS, has long been an excellent provider of thought-provoking, informative, current events news programs. Nearly 100 FRONTLINE programs are available for free online viewing. To help teachers use FRONTLINE episodes in their classrooms, FRONTLINE created a teacher center. The FRONTLINE Teacher Center contains web-exclusive bonus resources (extra video clips and text) and lesson plans that teachers can download for use in their classrooms. You can search the FRONTLINE Teacher Center by subject matter, episode title, or air date. I found it easiest to browse the lessons by subject matter.Newsy
Newsy is a site dedicated to merging news stories from various sources into one video clip. They use various news agencies, newspapers, magazines, and websites to create the story thus provide various views on a news story.
The news is broken down in to popular categories (US, World, Politics, Business, Tech, Health/Science, and Sports. I like the organization of Newsy for the purpose of covering current events and getting different views. It can help create discussion because of the different views you get about different stories. You could easily adapt the stories from Newsy to many of the subjects in schools while providing an unbiased view.
Guzzle
from Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... by Larry Ferlazzo
http://guzzle.it/
Guzzle is a new web application that lets you create your own personalized online newspaper. It looks good, but be sure to click on the “extended mode” to display it — the other ways are not particularly visually attractive. The only negative is at this point it does not appear you can make your “newspapers” public.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/default.stm
From Larry Ferlazzo
CBBC News
This is sort of a version of BBC News designed for younger people. The lay-out, writing, and choice of stories is very inviting. They used to provide audio to a lot of their stories, too, but they seem to have, unfortunately, discontinued that practice.
CNN's Student News: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
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