The brief post from yesterday was typed on-the-fly in our classroom as I was doing a bit on technology: the opportunities and limits of web searching/web sources.
Because we were talking about "colonialism," we googled in different ways: the web, blogs, scholar, images, videos (almost all of these new to students, who are used to clicking the first google hit, usually wikipedia, which some consider an unreliable source -- we did change the wikipedia entry for colonialism to say it was the name of my pet golden retriever; in about 90 seconds, we got a message saying that our addition looked "unconstructive.").
To see if the Google blog list would be updated with my own blog's mention of colonialism, I asked students to give me something to say. That's when Mike said, "Colonialism is good."
We never got back to seeing how long it took for our post to show up on Google's blogs list, but it's there now, WAY down the list.
Evacuation roots
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