Google has introduced a new way of searching news stories that provides a timeline of the story against the articles that have been posted around the web called Google Living Stories. Right now its limited to New York Times and Washington Post stories, but that will grow over time. Really looks to be an exceptional way of researching the background a current news story.
Posts Tagged current events
Google Living Stories
Dec 16
Will the world end in 2012?
Nov 19
Movies are other current events often introduce kids to new topics, and the disaster movie 2012 seems no exception. It may have crashed at the box office but the hype alone was enough for NASA to launch an official rebuttal to this Mayan induced story.
Check out 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won’t End?
Daylight Saving Time Explained:
“Last night most of us in the US turned our clocks back by one hour. Why did we do this? The CBS Fast Draw team explains why in the video below.
Applications for Education
This video provides a succinct explanation of the rationale for Daylight Saving Time. If you don’t plan to show the video to your students, it’s still worth watching as a refresher for yourself. “
(Via FreeTech4Teachers.)
“As you’ve probably heard by now, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 has been awarded to President Barack Obama. This announcement will undoubtedly create good conversation in current events classes. Your students will probably have questions about the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Foundation has created a Nobel Peace Prize fact sheet to help visitors learn more about the history of the prize and to address some frequently asked questions. The Nobel Peace Prize website also offers videos of lectures given by past recipients of the prize.
The Nobel Foundation has an educational games site designed to help students learn about the work of past Nobel Prize recipients from a variety of fields. For example, there is a game for learning about Pavlov’s dogs.”
(Via FreeTech4Teachers.)
AP Images Now Available
Sep 23
Thanks to the DuPage ROE we are pleased to offer access to staff to AP Images. The service provides access to web quality photos taken by Associated Press affiliated photographers. The site is a great resource for current event photos ranging from world news to sports and more.
Access the site here.
Username: dupage
Password: dupage
Republished from Free Technology for Teachers, a leading Tech for Teachers blog:
Today, Google unveiled the Google News Timeline. The Google News Timeline could become a fantastic resource for anyone that teaches current events and or 20th – 21st Century history. The Google News Timelineallows you to search for news stories by event, a person’s name, or by date. In the example below I searched for “John F. Kennedy, 11/22/63.”
Search results include links to stories, images, and videos. In some cases your search will yield results from archived magazines and newspapers. In my testing of the service, I found that searches for more recent events yielded more results than searches for older events.
As a research tool, the best feature of the Google News Timeline is the ease with which you can find related results by dragging the timeline forward or backward with your mouse.
The Google News Timeline is still in development in the Google Lab, but what they’ve made available thus far is a very promising tool for history teachers and students.
Applications for Education
The Google News Timeline could be a very useful research tool for history and current events students. Through the use of the timeline, students will be able to choose an event then read about the lead-up and aftermath of that event. For example, if a student picked “fall of the Berlin wall” they could use the Google News Timeline to read news accounts of the days prior to the fall of the wall and the days following the fall. The timeline will also display links to current writing on the student’s chosen topic.”
