The John Lennon Peace Wall | Prague 2010

The John Lennon Peace Wall | Prague 2010
John Lennon Peace Wall | Prague 2010 | Photo by Deborah S. Greenhut

About Me

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Deborah S. Greenhut, PhD, is a playwright, arts documentarian, and educator who began teaching in a one-room school house in rural New England during 1970. These days you can find me collaborating with urban educators and students, seeking new ways to make education artful. I have consulted on management skills and communication arts in 44 of the United States and 5 provinces in Canada. I believe that people learn more effectively through drama-assisted instruction, and I exploit the Internet to deliver it. The views expressed here are entirely mine and not those of any other institution or organization.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Freedom of the Press

There's a terrific museum in Washington called Newseum. The second wonderful thing about it concerns its online resources. Today, I reviewed the site's Freedom of the Press map. According to their ranking system, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland are most free. The United States ranks 9 out of the countries that appear among the free. The least free? North Korea.

The graphics and factual content are a wonderful teaching tool and easy to navigate.

True to its name, the Newseum holds archives of news photographs and a daily updated link to front pages from 869 newspapers from 89 nations.

This website illustrates the extraordinary potential of the Internet for learning.  If you are headed to Washington for your spring break, see it live!

Link to a poem about The News here.

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