Both Newseum and Newsmap let you display the latest news stories from across the world in an interactive visual way. Newseum gives you a world map where you can view the front pages from around 800 of that day’s newspapers (see screen shot below left). As you hover over the region the relevant newspaper front pages pop up. Newsmap Full Article…
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On line thesaurus
Wordnik is an online dictionary/thesaurus that’s a doddle to use. Just type in the word you want to find out more about and hit enter. Wordnik then finds definitions, examples and heaps of extra information about that word. That extra info includes photos from the web about that word, recent relevant Twitter posts and whether or Full Article…
Nationmaster
www.nationmaster.com Don’t worry, it sounds more ominous than it really is. NationMaster aggregates world data on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects, letting you compare nations with one another based on many different criteria. For instance, America kicks the rest of the world’s butt at soft-drink consumption.
Tag Galaxy
Visual representations of data are nothing new, but Tag Galaxy takes it to new heights in searching Flickr photos. Enter a single keyword (I used “frog”) and you’ll see a 3D representation of a solar system with the keyword as the sun, orbited by related word “planets” (e.g., “amphibian,” “green,” and “toad”). Click a planet Full Article…
Learning by quizzing
Students can use the LearningApps I’ve mentioned before to create little interactive quizzes for their classmates. The website enables you to create accounts for your students, so they don’t have to register themselves. I used this in my history lessons and I’m really happy with the results. The students had to use books and other Full Article…
Newspaper Club
I’ve come across this website (http://www.newspaperclub.com) and I think this can be used really well in class. You have to create an account, however, you only have to use an e-mail address and a password. Then you can use their layout tool to create a newspaper and export it as a pdf for free. If you Full Article…
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