News Travels Fast: GNewsVision

Yesterday I shared an engaging blend of RSS-driven news and geography called MappedUp. Following on the heels of that post comes today's offering, a similar yet refreshingly unique means of tracking geolocalized Google News on a map. The site is known as GNewsVision. As news stories arrive, a plane automatically jumps from one country to another on a map.

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Social Studies teachers:
If you're helping students keep up with current events and want to blend in a little geography at the same time, consider using MappedUp. This nifty service tracks a large number of RSS news sources (i.e., hot stories and where on the globe their making a splash) and displays their latest items on a world map thereby delivering content with a healthy helping of geographical context.


Related links:

• For those who like their content fresh and visualized, Newsmap has been around for a while and continues to be impressive. It puts story popularity into perspective.
• Those who are concerned about a free and open press will want to swing by NewsCloud.