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Give a kid a voice and WOW! Election coverage from 5th grader.

Election coverage from the Kathryn E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary in Florida. Damon Weaver, a 5th grader, is the news reporter covering Obama and McCain rallies in Florida. And he gets a terrific interview with Joe Biden. Well done Damon! And “well done” to the school too. What an amazing way to involve your students in [...]

Google in Quotes

Via Phil Bradley’s weblog:
Google has come out with a really clever gizmo that they’re calling ‘Google in Quotes‘. Basically it pits two political figures from some major countries together allowing searchers to type in a search term in order to compare what they say about the subject. The experiment comes in various country flavours…
This service [...]

2.0 in the Classroom & PBS Election Curriculum

Earlier tonight I received a note about a live webcast discussing the PBS multimedia Election 2008 curriculum and the Web 2.0 tools and resources that are part of the curriculum. Wow, I’m so glad I clicked through to it, even though I got there a bit late.
The material they’ve created is just terrific!  Access, Analyze, [...]