Listen Edition Offers an Edmodo App for Teaching With Current Events

Listen Edition is a service that organizes current events lessons around public radio stories. Now these stories and lessons are available t...

Almost Everything Students Need to Know About the United Nations

While looking for student-friendly information about the situation in Ukraine I came across the following video from CNN Student News. Every...

Three Short Videos and a Timeline for Understanding Current Events in Ukraine

The ongoing situation in Ukraine is a complicated topic for middle school and high school students in current events courses. The following ...

Create Trending Vocabulary Lessons

Merriam-Webster's website has a neat feature called Trend Watch that highlights words that are trending in news and popular culture. Tr...

Bitly's Real-Time Media Map Shows the Media Outlets States Prefer

Bitly's real-time media map is an interesting display of which major media outlets are most popular in which U.S. states. There are fou...

Biology Pop - Videos, Articles, and Apps About Biology

Biology Pop is a site that features videos, articles, games, and reviews of apps about topics in biology. The site features content in seve...

An End of 2013 Video Project for Students

As the end of 2013 approaches we'll start to see most news organizations start to publish videos that review the biggest stories of the ...

Listen Edition and Socrative Combine to Offer Audio-based Lessons

Listen Edition is a service that organizes lessons around public radio stories. The stories are made available through recordings on Listen...

Mashpedia - A Real-time Encyclopedia

Mashpedia is an interesting service that matches reference articles from Wikipedia to materials from YouTube and news websites. The purpose...

Three Video Explanations of the Debt Ceiling and a 14th Amendment Question

Earlier today Keith Hughes sent me a link to his new video The 14th Amendment and the Debt Ceiling Explained . In the video Keith explains w...

CNN Student News Explains Syrian Conflict

Today's episode of CNN Student News begins with a segment on the current state of affairs in Syria. Students watching the segment will ...

The Whiz Times - News Stories & Quizzes for Kids

The Whiz Times is a news site designed for kids. The site features a wide array of news stories covering everything from serious stories ab...

CNN Student News Is Back for 2013-2014

The new school year has started for some and will be starting again soon for everyone else. With the start of a new school comes a new seas...

The Syrian Conflict Explained in Five Minutes

Social Studies teachers who are beginning the new school year by reviewing current events from around the world may be interested in this vi...

A Short Explanation of the European Union

If you teach global studies, current events, geography, or anything along those lines, you've probably found yourself explaining the Eur...

Exploring Flipboard Magazines On the Web

Since June Flipboard has made it possible for people to collaboratively create digital magazines on their iPads, Android tablets, and in t...

Debate Graph Helps Students See All Aspects of Important Debates

Debate Graph is a great resource that students can use to evaluate the many arguments in hot-button global topics. By providing webbed di...

Best of 2013 So Far...5 Places for Kids to Learn About the News

We're half-way through 2013. Like I've done in years past, this week I'll be featuring some of the best new tech tools of 2013 a...

DOGO News - Create and Share Lessons About the News

Last month I shared five good places for kids to learn about the news . This evening I learned about another good place for students to lear...

CNN Student News Reviews the News of the School Year

Today is the last day for CNN Student News until the new school year starts in the fall. The bulk of this morning's edition of CNN Stude...