Monday, January 20, 2014

VIZ Worldview 2013

The Future-Talk VIZ blog serves a diverse international audience. Our readers might be interested in seeing which countries were our top ten blog visitors during 2013. Based on web impressions for the 2013 calendar year, here is how the data shape up:


United States
Russia
Germany
China
Ukraine
France
Poland
UK


Are there any surprises here? Or are these just “the usual suspects?” What do you think? Please comment.


Of course, this chart only represents the top ten. Many hundreds of other visitors have frequented this blog from countries all over the world. I want to thank you for your deep and committed interest in visual learning and teaching. Please write me, let me know what you are doing in your country. I would love to feature some interviews in 2014.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Best of VIZ 2013

Last year was a thriving year for the Future-Talk VIZ blog. As the new year begins, it is fitting to reflect on the most popular topical posts of 2013.  The top nine topical posts of 2013 are presented below, in order of web impressions received:


Actually, it’s quite thought provoking to speculate as to why these particular topics were “top of mind” in 2013 for the diverse international audience that regularly follows this blog. My book continues to pull positive interest; the explosive growth of iPads in schools explains the next two priorities, which are worth re-reading; our Great Recession explains the rise of our fourth-ranked posting; keen interest in Marzano’s instructional strategies, as applied to doc cams, explains the interest in “high-leverage strategies”; and the rising tide of online learning explains the last entry. Please let us know your hypotheses or thinking by posting a short comment.