Ten by Ten is a unique program that links images with news stories. Every hour the top 100 news stories from around the world are linked to images on a ten by ten grid. The stories are ranked. Clicking on an image will provide you with more information including links to more articles about the story. (You must allow pop-ups for the article links to work).
Application for teachers
Ten by Ten could be used as a way for students to find information about news stories they've heard about. Ten by Ten's photographs may spark interest in a story that students may not have heard anything about. In other words, Ten by Ten can expose students to a larger world. I have used Ten by Ten as conversation starter with my classes. I gave students time to explore the images and stories then had the students share what they discovered.
I'm away on my annual "school's out for summer" fishing trip. A few of the blog posts this week will take a look back at some resources that I wrote about in the early days of this blog before it had much of a following. I'll be back online on Wednesday evening at which time I'll be moderating comments.
4 comments:
Thanks for this interesting resource and have a safe and fun fishing trip!
anne marie
This is an amazing way to engage youth (and even most adults) in news. It gets directly to visual learners and also provides an interactive way for "news readers" to decide which news best suites their curiosity. This is a unique web 2.0 concept by allowing the viewer to pick and choose the areas that interest him or her the most. It reminds me of the TIME magazine "100 Most Influential People" image http://media.photobucket.com/image/Time%20magazine%20most%20famous%20people/owl4ever/starmo/time_100_most_influential_people.jpg
Thanks for sharing.
Tonie
Doesn't seem to work correctly. I clicked into "wimbledon" and it linked to stories about the US leaving Iraq.
An even better news aggregation visually is http://newsmap.jp/ You can filter by topic and country/language too. Not all news has a graphical image.
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