Blog Post #4

In Defense of My Gadgets:

Other than my profile, search bar, pages, and blog archive gadgets on my blog, I have chosen a few others that supplement the information given in my blog. First of all, I chose to add a voki to my page. I feel that it really brings life to the page, and makes people more interested in finding out what my blog is about. I added two gadgets that serve the purpose of counting visitors. Although they serve the same basic purpose, they are still essentially different. One of them is a cluster map. This one shows people's geographic location on a map from where they visited my blog. I am very interested to see if people from different countries end up visiting. The second page-view counter simply counts the number of times my page has been viewed. It also keeps track of how many people visited the page per day. The cluster map really brings the reality of the Internet to life as we can see that people from across the world have access to the information I put out on the Web. I also created a poll on my page. This will help me to see how big of a problem cyber-bullying really is and how much it really effects people. Along with these gadgets, I chose a powerful video, which illustrates the harmful effects of cyber-bullying. This emphasizes the importance of technology in the classroom, and will hopefully help people to realize how important it is for children to be educated in E-Sponsibility because of how much technology is integrated today. Last, but certainly not least, I added links to different pages that include interesting information. They relate to E-Sponsibility and may help some people to realize how important it is to carefully consider everything they post on the Web.