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YouTube channel that focuses on international crises.

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Frank Baker's Media LIteracy site. Full of amazing links and resources for teachers and students. I plan to use this for a couple of classes at both the middle and high schools.

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Project in which students create a media outlet in the Arab world. Great application of essential question to a project. Could this fit into the Cont. Issues Curriculum?

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PBS lesson bank on media and the role it plays in the political process.

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Radiohead's video showing the disparity between youth in the developed v. developing world.

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The one and only.

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This is from the BBC. I wish the interface used some of the white space to display the text from the article.

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An interesting site that allows you to read and judge for yourself (and vote) on whether a story has a left or right spin.

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Where were you when...

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Great article regarding how social networking can be used to organize revolutions and news transfer in areas where it is difficult to meet in person.

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Collecting some pages for our upcoming class on the History of Genocide in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

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Every newspaper in the EU in it's native language. Awesome for World Languages and current events. Google Translator works well too.

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Use these with google searches and news searches to get a different country's perspective.

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