REGISTER [Learn More]
Register with trackcurrentevents.org to help you organize your TRACKERs, surveys and research.
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CREATE A TRACKER [Learn More]
The TRACKER interface organizes up to 10 personally selected web sites so that your students can discuss and learn more about a current event online. To learn more about TRACKER, take the Tutorial
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TUTORIAL
Take the Tutorial before you create your first tracker or survey. It will help you get the most out of this program.
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CREATE A SURVEY [Learn More]
Before you create a Tracker, you can create a survey to find out what current events are most interesting to your students.
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WHAT IS A TRACKER?
TRACKER enables teachers and students to organize current online resources, such as online newspaper articles. The Internet is a great resource for displaying multiple articles on a current event, but is often overwhelming due to the huge amount of sites available today on the Internet. TRACKER organizes your selected articles by utilizing an interface that allows users to navigate from article to article with the click of a button.
The TRACKER interface also includes an online newspaper that aids summarization and discussion of a current event. As the editor of your TRACKER, you create a summary of a current event that will be displayed on the "Front Page" of your TRACKER newspaper. The users may write a response to the current event by participating in a discussion board, "writing a letter to the editor" and responding to questions posed by the editor for each site. The "editor" (often a teacher) then has exclusive access to all of the answers. Both the discussion board and "letter to the editor" are features that are available only to those taking that specific TRACKER.
You can create a TRACKER without knowing how to create a web site. All you need to do is find online articles for a current event, write down the address, and fill out a form. It's as simple as that! Once you are finishe, you will be given a web address of your tracker that you can hand out or email to others. Register or create a TRACKER today. [Learn More] |
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