SearchMe.com

I was immediately attracted to this website because of the visuals. I first looked through each of the "stacks" that the website provided on the home page: Top News Stories, Entertainment News, Technology News, and Blog News. When thinking about my own classroom, I thought that I could use something like this for "current events" day on Fridays. I did "current events" in high school, but instead of looking for news stories online, we would use newspapers. We had to cut out the article and staple it onto our reflection paper. I think that if students went to this site to look for current events, they would have a much bigger range of news articles to pick from and can also choose the specific category that they're interested in-like technology, entertainment, blogs, etc. I think that I would limit their choices to Top News Stories and Technology News because these two are more educational than Entertainment News. I would encourage students to use the site for other purposes, but for their current events on Fridays, I would like them to share with the class something educational that they learned. I think that students would find this site a lot more useful than Google would be for current events. With Google, you have to actually have something in mind to search for. With SearchMe, there are already lots of news stories to choose from when you first open the page. There are also categories at the top that students can filter out their search such as video, images, music, etc. I was really impressed with this website overall and will continue to think of ways that it could be useful in the classroom (and to myself!).