Mondo Times is a Fun, Free Education Tool
August 13, 2007: The World Wide Web makes it easy for students to travel the world with a few clicks of the mouse. Mondo Times (www.mondotimes.com) is a media directory enabling students to quickly access just about any newspaper, magazine, radio or television station in the world. In all, 17,000 media outlets are covered by the service.
Teachers can supplement their curriculum with this free online service, and offer students an involving way to tour the world. Instead of imagining a far-away country and its culture, students can read the local newspaper and listen to local radio and TV stations. Teachers can use the service to liven-up oral reports, play a foreign radio station for language studies, or read local news stories.
The Social Studies School Service says: "Mondo Times is an excellent resource for current events and world history classes. Using the search engine provides students with easy to find Web sites from all over the globe containing up-to-date current events."
For librarians, the Mondo Times directory is a practical research tool. As a virtual library of mass media, Mondo Times offers instant access to both print and electronic media without leaving the classroom. By connecting to local media, students can learn about current affairs and get acquainted with the cultural and political currents which influence how the news is reported and presented in different parts of the world.
Mondo Times is used by over 1 million people each month, an indication of the strong interest in local news and opinion from around the world. Along with students and adults seeking news, the site is popular with business professionals in advertising, journalism, publicity and media research.
A free Mondo Times membership allows registered users to rate the content, political orientation and credibility of each media outlet, and to write media reviews and comments. Contact information for the American media, including email addresses and telephone numbers, is available with a paid subscription.
A sister service, Easy Media List (www.easymedialist.com), provides customized, downloadable media contact lists for publicity and promotion. And MediaOwners.com is a free service that covers the media properties owned by the 100 largest American media companies.
Contact:
Eric Kallgren
Producer, Mondo Times
720-565-8455
Mondo Code LLC
PO Box 1288
Boulder CO 80306
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