Thanks to my favorite blog, Free Technology for Teachers, I've learned about another cool resource. Thanks Richard!
Here's what they say on their site:
Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading
international news sources, and performs an elaborate process
of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their
top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically
drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words
are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from
the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and
year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the
top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly
evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent
world events, without any human input.
When you open
10x10, you will see a grid of the top 100 world images that
hour, ranked in order of importance, reading left to right,
top to bottom. Along the right edge of the screen are listed
the corresponding top 100 words, one for each image.
Move your mouse around the images and you'll see which words
match which images. Move your mouse up and down the word list,
and the corresponding images will light up. Click any word
or image to zoom in and see the news headlines behind the
word. Click the headline links to read the original news stories.
Click the zoomed image a second time to see the image full
I love this as a vehicle for exploring current events together on your interactive white board or screen or for older students to use for research/information. Every class period might look a little different because the folks at Ten by Ten update it each hour. Check it out!