What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher

I  calculate what’s trending on my blog by which of my posts are popular in a

Most visited Ask a Tech Teacher articles

particular time period. Here’s the run-down so far this year:

1. 20 Great Research Websites for Kids
2. 20 Common Computer Problems and Solutions (a Third Grader Can Do)Great Websites
3. 107 Favorite iPad Apps for K-8
4. 31 Human Body Websites for 2nd-5th Grade
5. 2nd Grade
6. 62 Kindergarten Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
7. 18 Online Keyboard Sites for Kids
8. 20 Valentine Sites For Your Students
9. Great Websites
10. Great Lesson Plans

Another part that’s interesting is where viewers ‘click through’ once they find my site. This tells me the resources they like enough to spend time on seeking out. Here are the top then:

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Umm, I’m not sure this’ll link for you. If not, check my other post

Here’s an excerpt:

Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!

Click here to see the complete report. If this link doesn’t work, visit my Monday post for hits and misses.

Follow me

---

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor of a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and creator of technology training books for how to integrate technology into education. She is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blogger, a columnist for Examiner.com, featured blogger for Technology in Education, IMS tech expert, and a monthly contributor to TeachHUB. Currently, she’s editing a techno-thriller that should be out to publishers next summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.

What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher

I  calculate what’s trending on my blog by which of my posts are popular in a

Most visited Ask a Tech Teacher articles

particular time period. Here’s the run-down so far this year:

1. 107 Favorite iPad Apps for K-8
2. Great Websites
3. 20 Great Research Websites for Kids
4. Great Lesson Plans
5. 18 Online Keyboard Sites for Kids
6. Kindergarten sites
7. Four Online Sites to Teach Mouse Skills
8. 20 Common Computer Problems and Solutions (a Third Grader Can Do)
9. 23 Websites to Support Math Automaticity in K-5
10. 62 Kindergarten Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons

Compared to all time:

What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher

I  calculate what’s trending on my blog by which of my posts are popular in a

Most visited Ask a Tech Teacher articles

particular time period. Here’s the run-down so far this year:

1. Great Websites
2. 20 Great Research Websites for Kids
3. Lesson Plans
4. 23 Websites to Support Math Automaticity in K-5
5. 2nd Grade
6. 62 Kindergarten Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
7. 31 Human Body Websites for 2nd-5th Grade
8. 1st Grade
9. Top 13 Web 2.0 Tools for Classrooms
10. 62 First Grade Websites That Tie into Classroom Lessons
11. 18 Online Keyboard Sites for Kids
12. Four Online Sites to Teach Mouse Skills
13. You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When…
14. Kindergarten
15. 29 Steps to Internet Safety for Kids

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 200,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 9 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Follow me

---

Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and author of two technology training books for middle school. She wrote Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a tech columnist forExaminer.com, Editorial Review Board member for ISTE’s Journal for Computing Teachers, IMS tech expert, and a weekly contributor to Write Anything. Currently, she’s seeking representation for a techno-thriller Any suggestions? Contact Jacqui at her writing office, WordDreams, or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.

What’s Trending on Ask a Tech Teacher

I  calculate what’s trending on my blog by which of my posts are popular a particular month. Here’s this month’s run-down:

QR codes are 'what's trending' in tech ed

1. Great Kids Websites
2. 41 Websites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom
3. 3 Projects to Integrate Tech into an Animals Unit–Part I
4. 18 Online Keyboard Sites for Kids
5. Ten Best Keyboarding Hints You’ll Ever See

These aren’t surprising. Half of my most popular posts are about keyboarding. The next ‘most popular’ group is lists of theme-oriented websites. These are my collection of websites that tie into classroom units. I post them on my class start page during the class unit and replace them when the teacher moves on to another unit.

The only post popularity that surprises me is the post discussing integrating tech into an animals unit. I’m also surprised that the posts on specific lesson plans and tech tips don’t show up as trending until I look way down the list–toward the top twenty. What are your thoughts on that? Should I post less on tech tips and more on websites/keyboarding?