The class is designed to teach students about web applications, digital citizenship, personal network building, and social media responsibility and practice. This blog will be used to share with our readers the tools, websites, and web resources that students are learning about. We hope that you find a tool that you can utilize.

There are so many web applications available on the Internet that students may not even know exist. In this course, students will explore the Internet and take advantage of all that it has to offer. Students will learn that Google is more than just a search engine. They will discover various web applications that will help make their time on the Internet more effective and efficient. The web applications that will be explored include, but are not limited to: sharing buttons, blogs, avatars, RSS, social bookmarking, photo sharing/editing, audio and video, presentation, drawing, collaboration tools, and screencasts. Internet marketing and shopping sites will also be explored. Students will explore applications of which they can utilize to enhance both their learning and social experiences. Students will learn and practice digital literacy and responsibility, collaborate, share, create, socialize, and organize content, while demonstrating internet safety. Upon leaving this course students will be informed digital learner/citizen!


I LOVE LOVE LOVE looking for new tools to share with my students! I explore the web daily in search of new tools. I also gain knowledge from other Social Media blogs/websites who have found resourceful tools. Thank you to all of those experts who share their love for technology with the rest of us!


I also enjoy looking at the students creativity - through their blogs! My students love exploring Social Media! And will walk away with a collection of tools (their own Personal Learning Network) that will enhance their Internet experience both personally, educationally, and professionally.

Histats - Visitor Counter

Lets start tracking our visitors!

There are numerous services available on the Internet for you to track your visitors.  Today you will look at Histats.com and add a counter gadget to your blog.

As mentioned, on this website you can create a counter to add to your blog, which tracks your visitors.  You must create an account on Histats.com

To see my HiStats counter - scroll down to the bottom of of this blog.

Follow these steps if you need help figuring histats out.

  1. Go to histats.com
  2. Register
  3. Check your email for confirmation
    1. check junk mail or spam folder it may have went there (mine did)
  4. Click the link to activate account
  5. Go to histats.com
  6. Login
  7. Click add a website
  8. Key in your blog address--for description just put Social Media, for title Social Media or whatever
  9. Click get your counter code
  10. You will see your blog address with a number beside it - click your blog address
  11. Click counter code in the right hand corner
  12. Click add a new counter
    1. choose your counter there are several--click to select
    2. check mark what you want to show up on your counter - page visits, etc.
  13. Click save
  14. Click counter id and code will appear for you to copy.
  15. Add the html gadget somewhere on your blog.
  16. When you have it finished have someone visit your blog.
  17. Now just explore histats - we will look at more closely next week.

To read more about the features of Histats - click below.

Your site visitors/pageviews/return visitors by hour, day, month year, real time and free!
Online visitors and Forecast of hourly and daily stats.
Compare more stats of more days OR ppv, online visitors average, new visitors values in the same chart , with just 2 clicks.
Stats summary and customizable reports.

last 60 days trends with hourly/daily stats.
daily stats archived since subscription day.
Unlimited daily and monthly website referral stats.
Unlimited daily and monthly search engine referral stats.
120-day day-to-day search engine trend comparison.

Cumulative exportable, sortable stats by : visitors language, browser version , operative systems and resolution stats, useful to build a \"visitor compatible\" website!
Cumulative exportable, sortable stats by: geolocation , city, country, region, internet connection speed and visitor IP!

You can track stats of your pages one by one, or track stats based on group of pages or visitors. This is useful for big sites; it enables you monitor different sections of your site. For example, by using the same ID for all your forum pages, you can track hits to your forum. No one else has this feature.
Also with ROI code, you can enable the ROI tracking in your subscription, shopping or any other pages to see which referrer provides you the most traffic.
Click counter code allows you to track pages where the Histats counter cannot be placed. For example external links, ads, file downloads, and more. Every link can be counted this way because we use an automated redirect to send visitors to right destination.
Path tracking between pages and varying sections of your site.

You can have unlimited sites in your account.
Our control panel allow you to create sub-accounts with different access levels for same site. For each account, you may create sub-accounts with permission rights to view their respective statistical data. This is an effective way for your customers and advertisers to see their stats.
Free visible, invisible and password protected stats! Other competitors do not have password protected stats in their free versions, WE DO!
600+ hit counter styles. Transparent, text and hidden counters available.

An extremely large, dedicated log for your latest visitors. We also maintain a detailed log of your last 20,000 hits.
Visitors statistics by IP, sortable in different ranges (weekly, daily, hourly, 10-minute ,1-minute).
A list of your last 20,000 hits by visitors IP with country, referrer, entry-page, exit-page information.Histats collects specific statistical information on a per visitor basis; you can see all the pages viewed by a visitor, and the time spent on each page.
its stats for all your pages
Visitor use patterns. For example from your homepage, you can know many users clicked on about pages, or how many clicked on an advertisement page. Again, we never limit the amount of data collected to your log file. This enables you study visitor behavior.
Entry pages with timing and average stats.
All referrer sites, with average visit time of visitors based on referrer.
Referrer stats are also displayed by search engine type or keyword , domain URL, page URL. All with total numer of visitors sent to your site, the number of pages the visitors viewed and the average time spent on your site.
Complete cumulative geolocation stats. With this, you may find country specific usage. For example you can discover spanish users leave your site after 2 minutes while USA users stay for more than 10 minutes. Such disparities may arise perhaps your spanish version is less attractive or not well translated.

- Your log stats are sortable by time of day, ip or ip range.
More features to come, as we are ever improving our services based on customer feedback. 

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