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You probably remember doing them when you were in school and if you're a teacher you still have your students doing them:  Current Events.  Well the students of today have access to a whole lot more news articles from all around the world  than most of their teachers could even imagine.  Here's how to find some current events online:

First we're not going to waste any time at the website of your local paper or TV stations.  We're going to go right for websites that are the pulsing jugular of online current events. 

Google News:

1)      Go to http://www.google.com and select the “News” tab in the upper left hand corner.  Or, look below for the current top stories in the U.S.:

2)      When you get there you’ll be viewing a list of the top stories by category. The stories are gathered from online news resources from all around the world.  The stories are categorized and updated routinely.  You can even see how old the stories are.  Some of them are only minutes old.  You can't get much more "current" than that, can you.

3)      Categories include Science & Technology, Sports, U.S. National News and even Entertainment.  To find more stories in that category just click on the tabs in the top left of the web page.

4)      Maybe you’d prefer to view your news from a Russian, Chinese or an Indian perspective.  Just click on the country of your choice at the bottom of the screen and you'll be viewing current events from those countries:

This is an example of an automatic news aggregator which is a website that pulls together top stories from all sorts of news outlets and puts similar stories together.  It's one stop shopping for all the current events you could ever need.

Other News Aggregators:

Here are some other examples of online news aggregators for you to check out:  

Bing.com/News - This search engine from Microsoft has a news button on the left hand side of the home page.  They also have an aggregator for News Video which is worth checking out.

News.Yahoo.com - Thought not exactly like other news aggregators, Yahoo does have a pretty comprehensive news website.

News.Ask.com - Another news aggregator that gives multiple sources for the same top stories.

Today’s Front Pages:

Maybe you prefer to actually see what the front pages of newspapers all around the world look like today.  Here’s how to do that and play some current event games too: 

1)   Go to http://www.newseum.org/ and click on “Today’s Front Pages” on the right hand side:

2)      When you get there you can click on the thumbnail of any front page to view it.  Double click on the front page to get a larger view and click on “PDF” to get a copy large enough to actually read.

Featured YouTube Video:
Bill Plate's Tour of the Newseum (CBS News)

PRACTICE ACTIVITY:   Try checking out the news this morning using a resource you’ve never used before.

TO KEEP ON LEARNING:  If you'd like to find more sources for current events online try searching for:

Current events
Internet news resources
Online news index
 

Have a nice day!

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