NBC News – Lights, Camera, Action, Using News Resources in the classroom.

Reasons to use NBC News archive (annual subscription required) One of the largest archive in the world.

Radio brodcast from the 1920’s and newsreels are included in the archive.
They are sorted by subject and level.

Currently thy have specialty collections on, African american studies, womens studies , etc. Developing Native American and Hispanic collections also.

Video Clips are correlated to state standards and you can browse lists by state standard. Students are watching reports that are primary documents. Transcripts are available for every clip.

With the presentation station rollout resources like this would be invaluable to our social studies teachers from 8th grade on.

Decision 08 setion – with clips current to the election including the political ads that air (and historic ads).
Lesson on analyzing political ads and compring past ads with present. (Daisy ad that aired only once during Johnson v. Goldwater(1964) :fear mongering example compare this ad to Hillary Clinton’s ad for 3am)

The child in the hillary comercial was shot 10 years previous and she is actually 18 and works for the oboma campaign and was interviewed on today and that is also in the archive.

Content areas and categories are updated daily. Most major stories are put into the archive by the next day.

When textbooks are published they are already a year out of date, this archive does not have that issue.

Class discussion based on relevance using video clips (ex: economics – using the current climate and clips from the news to explainhow economics affect kids life)