Teach42

I have to admit, I don’t watch or listen to the news too often. I get most of my news via the internet, or from discarded newspapers around the train station. So I had no idea bout the foiled terrorist plot this morning until some co-workers told me about it at work.

The first place I went to was CNN.com. The articles were very terse, and I quickly realized that the three articles I did read all shared the same quotes and information. I found it hard to uncover basic information, such as where the flights were bound for and such. I visited a couple other news sites and found essentially the same information formatted in the same way.

The I checked out the article on Wikipedia. I gotta admit, the article by far had the most complete set of information of any site I visited. Everything was meticulously linked so you could always go back to the original sources if you wanted to verify any information. They also had a ton of info that I never saw on any other sites.

For example, they had a list of what sorts of thigns are being allowed onto airlines and what aren’t. I had no idea that they weren’t allowing laptops or iPods on flights right now. While I’m not flying out today, if I were that would be incredibly useful information to have.

The other thing that I really liked was the fact that they had international reactions to the story from eight other nations.

If I were in a classroom and wanted to talk to my students about the situation, right now Wikipedia would certainly be at the top of my list for information.

And if you doubt the authenticity of any of it…. Well, just follow the link and check it yourself!

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