Can't get enough news? Want a (nearly) up-to-the-minute update on what's going on in the world? Then Google News
is for you. Google browses over 4500 news sources to update news on a
continual basis. News items are refreshed every 15 minutes,
automatically arranged by relevance and popularity. This provides the
freshest information available, all without human intervention. Google News provides stories in many categories: Top Stories, US, World, Sci/Tech, Business, Sports, Entertainment, and Health. As with many Google tools, if you have a Google account, you have the opportunity to personalize the page. Don't care about the latest breaking Sports story? Just click on the box, and it disappears! Want more Sports but less Health news? You have the opportunity to edit the the section, get as few as 1 or as many as 9 of the top stories for that group. And, you can drag and drop News Sections to rearrange/customize the page. You can keep track of the news breaking in your backyard. Add your Zip Code and keep apprised of what is happening in your locality. Prefer to monitor world news? You can change the country (and in some cases, the region of the country) you get your news from by changing the country in the pull down Top Stories menu. You can search past news by using the News archive search, or have news delivered to your e-mail account "as-it-happens" by setting up a Google Alert. Want to make sure you can take the news with you? The news is never farther away than your mobile phone. By entering your phone number in Google Mobile, you can get the latest headlines and search for news wherever you are. RSS and Atom feeds are also available for any Google News section. This gives you the opportunity to add the news section(s) you are most interested in to your iGoogle page or Google Reader. And when you find an article you want to read more of, just click on the headline, and you are taken to the news source's full article on the story. Even More: Image Version For those who prefer to browse the news through images, rather than text, Google News has an Image Version. These images are also updated frequently by a computer program. Pictures are arranged on the left, while the corresponding news headlines are listed on the right. As you scroll over a picture, the lead-in to the story is displayed. Click on the headline, and you are taken to the news source's article. However, you might prefer to see more pictures, the "+n" in the lower right hand corner of a picture, takes you to more photos of the story. News Archive Search Google continues to help organize all the world's information and make it accessible. They have partnered with newspapers, publishers, libraries, and repositories to make historical newspaper archives available online. When an archive search for people and events is done, the results allow you to view results by date. At the top of the page, you can choose an automatically generated timeline (much like the one in Google Advanced Search). As with Google Advanced Search, you also have the option to restrict the results by date or source. Note: some articles may require a fee from the provider for access to the full article. Google News in Your Classroom Now that you know about Google News, think of how you can integrate it into foreign language, science, social studies, language arts, or even physical education classes. Students have another opportunity to view primary-source information, helping them understand the people and events that have and continue to shape our world. We'd love to know how you use Google News in your class. Let us know by e-mailing us at: maryfranlynch@gmail.com or colette.cassinelli@gmail.com |
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