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=Welcome to the NewsGenerator for Educators Project! (February 2009)=

The idea of a [|newsGenerator] is to AUTOMATICALLY gather the most recent headlines relating to a particular curriculum subject based on specific keywords/phrases. The most important news items will be displayed on a webpage like [|this], and can be subscribed to as an [|RSS feed] or a [|widget] which automatically updates each and every hour.

How does it work?
It goes through the database of keywords, searching news sites for headlines containing them. Because the process is automated it can do 50 separate "searches" of the news in a fraction of a second. It then collates all the results and writes them to an RSS file.

What can you do?
Help to build up a list of topic categories (and keywords within them) in the format of this History Page. Just click one of the links below to add your ideas.

What will then happen?
So far, the only active NewsGenerator is for History, which can be seen [|here]. The plan is that I will develop others if there is sufficient interest. I will take the ideas from these pages and use them to develop newsGenerators for other subjects. These will be made freely available for anyone to use, although I'd reserve the right to place discreet adverts on the resulting website to cover costs.

I can be contacted directly through [|www.twitter.com/russeltarr] or by email at russeltarr@gmail.com.

**History** [Refer to this page to get an idea about how to set out a new one!]
Geography Music Art Drama English Literature Design and Technology Science Mathematics PSHCE Physical Education Digital Citizenship/Internet Safety