Okay, so I have finally visited http://creativecommons.org and selected a license. I’m still amazed by the ease of cutting and pasting widgets. (I’m totally into my Flag Counter and my WeeMe avatar) That’s probably why so many blogs are chock full of widgets. There is something to keeping the clutter down though. I had a choice between the size of the cc icon and I chose the small icon. Then I thought about an article by Dana Watts were she spoke of all teachers having a voice that matters. Does my choice mean something about my tech integration self-esteem? Absolutely! I am only adding a Creative Commons license because Jeff assigned this task. I still need more time to learn and grow and perhaps once I make it to course four or five, I will feel that this license is actually deserved. *I’ve just put the CC icon back on my blog as I accidentally deleted it a few weeks ago. This time I chose the large icon because it has symbols instead of text.
I’m Licensed!
Posted April 21st 2012 at 12:10 pm by Britt KJ Thorpe
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Sidebar is looking good! Love the avatar, map and flag counter. These are motivating widgets as they show you that people are actually looking at and reading your blog if they are not leaving comments (Lurkers…the webs full of them). Continue to reflect on this idea of audience and how powerful it is for you as a writer and then think about your students and how motivated they are when they have an audience. This is why I love having students blog and the first thing we do is put a map on their blog so they can see where people are from that are reading their blog. Audience is a motivating factor for doing work. Whether writing, creating videos, or any project. We do better work when we know we have an audience? Audience matters….so how do we use this to motivate students?