Thursday, October 16, 2008

Three for Thursday

Three visual news sites that are helpful in teaching news and current events.

Breaking News Map
An interesting site with breaking news from Reuters appearing on a moving Google map on fo.reca.st.

Newsmap I don't know why I like this, but it's interesting and quite usable. Stories are color-coded by story type and then darkened by time since posting. These first two links seem to be difficult for older adults to to see and use.

Spectra Visual News Reader This is one funky site which is a visual reader from the RSS feed of MSNBC. The floating and moving stories can be distracting.

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