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I like "clouds". A blog cloud is created by analyzing all of the words on a blog (excluding common words like "the" and "and") and then assigning each unique word a size based on its frequency of occurance. It is a fun visualization tool that can tell you a lot about a blog and its author. (I was surprised at how often I've used the words previous and permanent.)
You can create your own blog cloud here.
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Most visitors to my blog find me through the homeschool blog list on The Well Trained Mind website, messages I post on the WTM Message Boards, or through the Carnival of Homeschooling. I know this because I use a blog counter, provided by StatCounter, that tells me the web sites through which readers come to my blog. If that website was a search engine (like Google), I can also see what the person was searching for. This can prove rather amusing. Recent searches that led people here were:
happy birthday frodo
happy birthday frodo!!
old dirt road, ramblin' rose lyrics
tupperware lettuce crisper
the sea monkey stole my money
noah kalina myspace
life is but a stage
procrastination math poem
challenged books jungle books
But, by far the most popular search is a Google Image search for "Locks of Love Before and After Photos". It is very strange to see a photo of the back of Primo's head on Google Images!
Yes, I am easily amused.
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I am attempting to install categories in the sidebar that will link to Amazon.com the books we are reading and the movies we are watching. However, I am VERY new to HTML programming and have so far only been able to provide category titles and a link to The Hobbit that does not work.
Bear with me and hopefully I will get this up and running shortly.
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The photo is of our oldest dc at the statue of Hans Christian Anderson in Central Park, NYC. I can't believe it was taken almost a year ago... the day before St. Patrick's Day 2005!
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Especially when I finally have my blog up and running!
Yes folks, this blog has existed (blank) for almost a year and thanks to a lot of help from Aduladi', I have officially limped out of the starting block into the world of blogging! (You can just ignore the other 2 I am trying to get up and running... which I will make very easy by not giving you the addresses!)
I thought this would be a good way to keep friends and family a part of our school and a good means of accountability for me. Please bear with me as I am new to this, and haven't a clue as to what I am doing... to which Aduladi' can attest.
As a basic background to our school. We are a (loose) classical homeschool of 4 students (not including the adults), one tutor and a principal. Yes, we teach Latin! We have based our curriculum on the Trivium as described in The Well-Trained Mind and Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning.
So far we are loving the "Great Conversation".
Won't you join us?
