{"id":3657,"date":"2012-01-04T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T05:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2013-08-02T19:53:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T23:53:03","slug":"my-top-blog-posts-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/my-top-blog-posts-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top Blog Posts for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"i<\/a>These were the most popular posts on my blog during 2011:<\/p>\n

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  1. 6 News Stories to Connect to Orwell\u2019s 1984<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Text + Image = Tagxedo: The Next Generation of Word Cloud Fun<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Teaching Students About Headlines, Titles, and Subject Lines<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. List of Ten: Fun with Crayons<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Poem 3: Green Eggs and Ham<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Community Building Classroom Activities: A Round-Up<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Which Books Would You Ban?<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Write a Poem a Day for National Poetry Month<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Top 10 Things to Do with a Banned Text<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. What’s the Trick to Building Community in the Classroom?<\/a><\/a>\n <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I know that normally these yearly posts are a nice reminder of what’s happened during the year and easy posts for the weeks during winter break when there’s less going on in education. <\/p>\n

    This year, the list turned out to be an eye-opener for me as well. Half of the posts that had the most hits in 2011 showed up on the list in 2010<\/a>. In fact, only three of the posts listed were even written in 2011 (3, 7, and 8). There is no question that Teaching Students About Headlines, Titles, and Subject Lines<\/a> made the list because it was promoted by Guy Kawasaki on Google+<\/a>. There are similar stories behind the other two posts from 2011. Which Books Would You Ban?<\/a> got an extra push from some librarian colleagues, and Write a Poem a Day for National Poetry Month<\/a> was cross-posted on several educational sites. <\/p>\n

    I guess I have a goal for 2012 now. The posts I’m putting on my blog aren’t doing enough to capture anyone’s interest. It’s nice to have posts from 2009 and 2010 that are still popular, but I’d like my current posts to have readers too. Here’s to writing some posts in 2012 that connect with more readers!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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    [Photo: Lolcat submitted by brad, on ICanHasCheeseburger<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    These were the most popular posts on my blog during 2011: 6 News Stories to Connect to Orwell\u2019s 1984 Text + Image = Tagxedo: The Next Generation of Word Cloud Fun Teaching Students About Headlines, Titles, and Subject Lines List of Ten: Fun with Crayons Poem 3: Green Eggs and Ham Community Building Classroom Activities: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-WZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17144,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/17144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}