Martin Weigert stellt auf seinem Blog zweinull.cc Thesen zur Zukunft des Webs vor. Finde ich interessant und ich kann eigentlich auch bei den meisten ahnen, das sich der Trend in diese Richtung abspielen könnte. So hat zum Beispiel auch Jochenn Robes in seinem letzten Newsletter These 7 von der Renaissance der bezahlten Inhalte angesprochen und wenn man unseren SchülerInnen beim Netzwerken auf Facebook oder studivz über den Rücken schaut zeichnet sich auch These zwei Social Networks werden Kommunikationstool für jedermann bereits ab. Lassen sich nun aus diesen Thesen Schlüsse für die Schule ableiten? Continue reading ‘Thesen, die Zukunft – Internet und Schule: betrachtet’
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Breaking News in English has been around for a couple of years and features excellent podcasts from Sean Banville for learners of English as a second language; the news reports are free and there are several new lessons a week; each comes with a resource pack full of exercises and tasks. All lessons are based on stories currently in the news – as the world’s news breaks. The lessons can be downloaded in various formats are graded according to levels.
Most emailed articles – this has become quite a popular feature on the Internet. When you read an interesting piece of news or see an interesting cartoon, you may want to share it with a friend. Providers of websites and magazines often include a feature which makes emailing this quite easy. This feature often has names like “Email this article to a friend” and makes it easy to send a news piece to another person, but also gives newspapers a chance to see, where the interests of their readers are.
Find out what NYTimes.com readers are most interested in today. James Barron, a reporter at The New York Times, summarizes the three most e-mailed articles every weekday.
This podcast could be used to have the students write out the article after listening to the podcast and then identify the articles from the online paper. I think it could also be great for summarizing skills.
- Other podcasts from the NYT can be found following this link
- For the most popular articles in writing