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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Tuesday Tips 4/3/12


Widgets: Feedjit and Clustrmaps:  http://feedjit.com/   

Feedjit is a widget that can be added to blogs and wikis, or personal sites to track viewers and count views.  This has been especially motivating for students- they realize they have an authentic audience that is not just their teachers and parents.  Students can also view population maps and world maps showing where their visitors are from.  This allows for a great geography mini-lesson.  I recommend signing up using a spare email address, just in case of ads sent via email. This can be viewed on this blog!

Clustrmaps is also great for the same purpose: http://www.clustrmaps.com/index.htm  The website provides instructions for embedding the widget into your site!

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