Hosted by ABC news anchor, Forrest Sawyer, Newslinks is an ambitious visual and textual account of personalities, issues and events that have helped shape our world. It connects current events with regional history, socioeconomic facts and political trends to provide depth and context . Stories appear as map pins on the software program's 3-D global interface. From there, events are framed in the context of content from the CD-Rom to provide a living document of information. This integration of changing conditions with static information provides a whole new way of learning.
Telecommunications makes it possible.
Mindscape Student Reference Library addresses the needs of these students. The search engine allows users to seek information from 10 reference works simultaneously. Articles include photos, maps, video and other support material. Students can bookmark their articles, highlight text and save sets of related articles. Copying the information is easy.