2010 in review, or “The Cheapest and Easiest Post I’ll ‘Write’ All Year”

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,000 times in 2010. That’s about 17 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 43 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 96 posts. There were 31 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 4mb. That’s about 3 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was September 12th with 154 views. The most popular post that day was iPad in the Classroom: Round 2.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were chronicle.com, twitter.com, movingforward.wikispaces.com, facebook.com, and ascd.typepad.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for habits of mind, detwritus, history channel ipad, nate kogan, and historical habits of mind.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

iPad in the Classroom: Round 2 September 2010
2 comments

The “Crap Detection” Assignment, or “If you can’t create a nice title, then don’t create one at all.” September 2010
7 comments

Developing Historical Habits of Mind – A Collaborative Model August 2009
4 comments

iPad Apps for the Classroom — Video Edition! August 2010
3 comments

How many hits counts as viral? June 2010
4 comments

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About Nate

Originally from Salt Lake City, UT, Nate Kogan taught for eight years in Fort Worth, Texas, but is now back in his hometown teaching Upper School History at Rowland Hall. Nate is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Arlington studying Transatlantic History. Nate holds a B.A. in history and architectural history from Columbia College, Columbia University (NY), and an M.A. in history from the University of Texas at Arlington. His pedagogical interests presently center on how to integrate technology into the classroom to encourage greater student accountability, self-directedness, and improved critical thinking and research skills. His historical research interests center on transatlantic religious and disability history. Some of Nate's previous research, (largely the result of his upbringing as a Jewish gentile in the land formerly known as Deseret) Nate wrote about the history of the LDS Church, its changing presentation of identity to various outsider groups, and its concomitant quest for integration into the mainstream. His dissertation focuses on the role of Quaker transatlantic humanitarians in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and how their advocacy served to help Quakers gain legitimacy within the public sphere of mainstream Atlantic society.

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