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:

Digital Shapeshifter
iPads as Doc Cams
The Death of the Doc Cam
Grants, Contests, and More
High-leverage Strategies
VIZ Micro-Worlds
A Bird's Eye View
Simplicity
Doc Cams in Online Teaching

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.