This week, an inspirational blog post inspired by a cellist who played on through the bombing of Sarajevo tops the list of blogs this week. Minecraft and Kid President have educators talking. On Twitter, success, teaching practices, and trying new things are topping the list. (You can add Google Drive to Microsoft Office.) You write this post! Your tweets, retweets, reshares and likes show what you care about. Let's see what you're saying to all of us this week.
How are the top 10 tweets and posts selected? I used the statistics of traffic on my blog for the blog posts. I used Buffer analytics to give us the top tweets. Tweet popularity calculates by retweets, favorites, AND clickthroughs. A clickthrough happens when someone clicks a tweet. Clickthroughs are something you can't see looking at someone's tweets. They can only come from analytics from the person who tweets the tweet. (And knows how to set it up or view it.)
I hope you find something helpful.
Top 10 Blog Posts This Week
Why teachers need to keep going even when it's hard topped this week's list of top blogs.
Why Teachers Need to Keep Going Even When It's Hard – Inspired by Vedran Smailovic, the Cellist of Sarajevo, a post encouraging teachers to keep making their music even when they're discouraged.
Why Minecraft in Schools is the Modern Marvel: 5 Epic Ideas – An Interview on Every Classroom Matters with Lucas Gillispie, the teacher who runs one of the largest implementations of Minecraft in schools in the world.
Kid President: Kids Inspiring Kids to Change the World – an Interview with Brad Montague, director and creator of Kid President
Social Media in Schools – a piece written for Cathy Rubin from the Global Search for Education top 12 Teacher Blogs answering her question of the month “What is the role of social media in classrooms?”
How to Make Google Chrome Faster, Better and Prettier a tutorial series on the ins and outs of getting the most out of Google Chrome
15 Best Google Drive Add-Ons for Education an older perennial favorite. I'll be updating this one soon with one tweak.
What to Do When Someone Hates You one of the most popular posts I've ever written. Hate is something many of us struggle to overcome. These are truths I learned when grappling with a hate situation of my own. Lots of people read this one after searching for a solution to their problem on Google.
4 Writing Tips for Students
4 Writing Tips to Help the Writing Process – I'm getting thank-you emails about this post more than any other. As you help kids with college essays and high school essays, this post has the tools and tips to help you teach kids. It includes tutorials and links to sites that help you.
Note Taking Skills for 21st Century Students – Note taking has changed. Here are some tips and videos that I share with students and teachers so that when you take notes, you'll remember.
Top 10 Tweets of the Week
12 Mini Habits of Insanely Successful People http://t.co/ZGcc8XB8Yj pic.twitter.com/3zfq8X4how
— Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 17, 2015
5 Highly effective teaching practices http://t.co/hmliADnLmI — Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 19, 2015
WOHOO! This Plug-In Puts Google Drive Inside Microsoft Office https://t.co/aKh9Pl1mju #edtech pic.twitter.com/2VJ3eyh41Z
— Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 21, 2015
15 Things Every Teacher Should Try This Year by @Austin_Gagnier8 and @sylviaduckworth https://t.co/v5bRDabnP7
— Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 20, 2015
NEW POST: Social Media in Schools http://t.co/ycgI4jOYJ9 pic.twitter.com/okZkdb0o5C — Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 19, 2015
AWESOME: Download 15 Free Programming Books for Coders of All Levels http://t.co/wXrqI2oWA2
— Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 17, 2015
WSJ Reports: Survey Finds Teens Prefer Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat for #socialmedia http://t.co/5ArWmetDTH pic.twitter.com/3FDRsg3zjX — Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 18, 2015
Why Parent Involvement Matters So Much: The Research http://t.co/HvXKS34dmO pic.twitter.com/63GMUcVRHS
— Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 17, 2015
NEW SHOW! Kid President: Kids Inspiring Kids to Change the World https://t.co/kTsUhd6YV3 #edchat pic.twitter.com/khAmSZsrej — Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 22, 2015
10 Ways to Build Team Classroom https://t.co/41m3YkH0t7
— Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) October 20, 2015
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