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Iran Election Resources

Jun 14th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Check out the great page of feeds and resources about the Iranian elections that Buffy Hamilton put together on Netvibes.

While the mainstream media has been slow to pick up on the coverage of the historic Iran riots in reaction to the latest election results, social networks are brimming with the latest news.  Check out my new Netvibes research pathfinder portal to get the latest scoop on the Iran riots, including You Tube videos, Flickr photos, Tweets, delicious bookmarks, and Google News.

(via: Unquiet Librarian)

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

Oct 27th, 2008
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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 the election process.

More videos from Canal Point KECT

Google in Quotes

Sep 29th, 2008
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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 is one of the ever interesting projects from Google Labs and draws quotes from sources covered by Google News. Handy for a quick lookup. Out of context quotes can certainly be misleading, as a search on what John McCain has said about “England” reveals. But there are links back to the original news source to provide context. Handy for information literacy lessons pehaps?

Note that you can find quotes for people other than the ones that are listed. Select “custom” from the Edition dropdown box and start typing someone’s name in one of the “quotes by” boxes, matching names will pop up.

2.0 in the Classroom & PBS Election Curriculum

Sep 10th, 2008
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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, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Engagement will help you “discover the power of social media while promoting your students’ civic engagement.” This is a treasure trove of ideas, resources, interactive tools, lesson plans and more – all showing the enormous power and value of 2.0 tools. And what better context than this presidential election.

Use these resources to show the value of these tools and why we need to open our classrooms to them.

In addition to this terrific content, it was really interesting to see Elluminate in action.  (more…)