Last week NBC quietly released a learning tool called iCue in conjunction with MIT. See coverage on CNET TV s Loaded. It s been designed as a learning environment using a large collection of news clips taken from NBC s video archives to enable anyone to catch up on news coverage and current events. This archived footage is put into context, as long as viewers are willing to acknowledge that the content is coming only from one source NBC , and for now only with the focus on the U.S. presidential elections.

To get going, users can simply wander around the site, viewing various footage that s been meticulously categorized and DOCUMENTed complete with transcripts . They can also put their knowledge to the test with a smattering of editor-created mini games that require both a contextual understanding of what was going on at the time of the clip, along with whatever other bits of historical insight are found in the one- to two-minute segments. There s a whole lot going on, and I m betting the casual user is going to get lost very easily.

Check it out good idea... Kind of a web oddity ....