In exploring current events and world news with my students, I have come across a pretty cool Web 2.0 app called THOORA (http://beta.thoora.com/). It allows the reader to explore world news by popularity of what's being talked about on people's blogs. This website tells you when the issue became popular, how many people are blogging or tweeting about the issue, links to articles on the issue, and essentially what issue is getting the most attention. Thoora is an interesting way to attract students' interest in what's going on in the world.
Pros:
(1)Thoora is a different and interesting way to discover world news!
(2)Students able to navigate the website with ease and research without needing too much instruction on how to operate the site.
(3)I was able to connect this website to teaching primary/secondary sources.
Cons:
(1)Web 2.0 apps generally function best using Firefox, which is not supported in SBISD.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Elisa-
ReplyDeleteIsn't Firefox on those computers? It should be... Let me know!