Thursday, Feb 26

*You will have time to work with your partner or self to complete your mini-collection. Presentations, except for those few people who signed up for tomorrow, will go on MONDAY CORE ALL.

1. For tomorrow, read up about the current uprisings across the Arab world. The following links provide a look into the political revolution happening in Libya and the revolutions that have occurred/are occurring in other Arab nations.  LOOK at these and FOLLOW your own news sources.  WATCH the videos on these sites.  Over the week I will continue to add links and in Ad Issues on Friday we will have a conversation about them.  Be prepared to share what you’ve learned and your thoughts.

  • Watch live updates at http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ – This is a live stream of English news from Al Jazeera.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/middleeast/middle-east-hub.html?ref=africa – Interactive map with updates on all the uprisings
  • http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/21/world/middleeast/update-mideast-countries.html?ref=arabworldunrest201011 – This NYTimes site provides a look at the various leaders who were ousted from their positions or who are being demanded to leave from their positions currently.
  • http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/a/arab-world-unrest-2010-11/index.html – NYTimes overview of each uprising country with links.
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/feb/11/guardian-twitter-arab-protests-interactive – The following site is AMAZING in that it is a constant twitter feed update from all parts of the Arab world that are currently uprising.  You click on the map to see the tweets happening now.  And, important, as twitter and Facebook were the vehicles at the genesis of many of the uprisings.