News+Links

**Here are some Places To Find The Most Popular News Stories On The Web:**
The Newseum has [|front pages each day]from newspapers around the world. BBC News has a neat [|Live World Map] that shows what news is popular in what part of the world at anytime. Here is a [|good explanation about how it works]. I’ve known for awhile about the next resource I want to share, but Richard Byrne just wrote about it, and he described it perfectly. So I’m going to [|quote from his post], and I would encourage you to go there to read his ideas on how to use it with students: //[|“Ten by Ten] is a unique program that links images with news stories. Every hour the top 100 news stories from around the world are linked to images on a [|ten by ten] grid. The stories are ranked.”// Here are direct links to regularly updated pages of major news sites that show their most popular news stories:

[|Wall Street Journal Most Popular]
Here are a couple of resources from [|The Best Tools To Help Develop Global Media Literacy] that I’d like to highlight in this post: One is very new and is called [|Media Cloud — Visualizations]. It’s probably worth reading [|Read Write Web’s extensive post] on the site. In a nutshell, you can identify three media sources from throughout the world and then get a chart for their most frequently used words over the past ninety days or a comparative map showing the depth of coverage of different parts of the world. Both visualizations would be accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners, and the discussion potential is rich. [|Geographical Media] is the newest addition to that list. After you register (which is a free and easy process) you can see which topics are being covered in the news media in different parts of the world, and compare the differences. The site seems to have a number of other features — and it’s not particularly intuitive how to navigate through them — but the site has a lot of potential.