Ever assign a Current News Event to your students? Do you want more than cutting out an article from a newspaper or copying and pasting an online one? Do you want deeper thinking than regurgitating a summary of "What Happened"?
In comes Google Maps. Students can connect the events to geography, cultures and categories. Discuss how individual events are interrelated to each other? Where do the news sources come from? How do news stories differ in perspective according to their geographic origin or media source?
38. Resources
• How-To-Guide: Creating Current Events on Google
Maps
http://langwitches.org/blog/wp-
content/uploads/2009/09/Current-Events-on-Google-
Maps.pdf
• Langwitches Wikihttp://langwitches.wikispaces.com
• Geography, a separate subject. Really?
http://langwitches.org/blog/2010/03/27/geography-is-
a-separate-subject-really/
• News Events Assignment with a Twist
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/09/02/news-events-
and-global-awareness/
• The Logistics of Creating a Current News Event Google
Map
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/09/26/the-logistics-
of-creating-a-current-news-events-google-map/
39. Image Credits
Licensed under Creative Commons
• Social Media image adapted from Matth Hamm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/2945559128/
• We are not alone image by My Wonderful World
http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/gaw.html
• English Spoken Here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sh0rty/2355148509/
• All About Me- Ethnocentric by Ben Sutherland
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bensutherland/3208641755/
• Local/National News
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbcworldservice/4605886510
• Banana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/freakingnoob/3438012333/
• Miners in Chile by Gobierno de Chile
http://flickr.com/photos/50371131@N04/4917269713
• President Correa by Agência Brasil
Notes de l'éditeur
Germany: Spiegel after election
Spain: El Pais
November 2010