hendron’sdigest

The NY Times has released a collection of absolutely fantastic pictures from this past year, 2008, the Year in Pictures.

They have an especially long cache from the election. I’m not really sure I want to relive that whole thing again, but I did enjoy the photos a lot. Rich, large, and you can take over your whole screen with their Flash app.

I’m thinking teachers could use these for discussion points, and a little off-the-cuff research… “What is this?” “What’s going on?” and have students explore some recent events. Another project might be for students to choose 5 favorite photos and put together a “photo story” on the significance of each photo or news story. They’d likely come across stuff they knew something about, and others they had little clue.

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