RSS Feeds, Web Browsers--What is Most Accurate and Why?

As for search engines, I tend to use google the most. Not really sure why, I guess I just like the browser. They have also came out with a faster browser called google chrome as well which works best for my older computer (my back-up to my apple) as well. I also use safari if for some reason google is down.

When I am searching for news, I tend to use the NPR site or the BBC news site. I personally find them to be the most accurate and give more of a global perspective which I like. If I want to research music, I like the 89.3 The Current site.

As for researching outside of that, I look at the website and look for it's authenticity based on the topic. For example, when my students are doing research on the Holocaust, I have them look at the National Museum of the Holocaust Website. This is a credible site that gives information on survivors, concentration camps, influential people of the time period, archive pictures, etc. I always tell my students to look at the sites credentials. If it is someone's blog for example, this is not as credible as National Geographic. I try to focus my eighth grade students towards sites that aren't blogs because who is to say they are an "expert" on the topic. I explain to them that you or your friends could write a blog on the Holocaust, and it may or may not be credible, but who is to know?

On my google page that I have set up on my desktop, the feeds I have subscribed to are google reader, google newsreel, BBC News, Teacher's Magazine, Web MD Health, and People. Now the feeds that I subscribe to on a daily basis reflect my interests and what I what to be informed on. The feeds I would choose for research, would depend on what I was researching at the time. For the Holocaust, I would ask students to subscribe to the following: Teaching Tolerance, the National Holocaust Museum site, The Jewish Virtual Library, and No Way Out Reader's Theatre. Google newsreel is also great to use and can have it put on to your blog and it will pull feeds from any topic you wish. The only problem with using Google newsreel is that you must make sure that it is current information. My husband was telling me about a story that Google reader put out and it didn't have the date on the article. So many people saw this particular article, and noticed the company was doing poorly and many people pulled their stock from it. I think as a teaching tool, especially with eighth grade students, Google newsreel could be used as conversation starters in the beginning of class looking at these articles with a critical lens. Is this particular article credible? Why or why not? Does it have a date when it was published?