You know those "Click for Charity" sites (like the one I linked to in my last post) that you sometimes go to because you feel like you should? But you know they're depending on advertising and is that really what you want?
I just found out about a new site that combines that with my nerd side. FreeRice is a vocab game. Sure it still depends on ads for its donations. Bu it encourages you to keep on clicking. And clicking. And clicking. I want to get to higher and higher levels (unfortunately I'm keep getting error messages and beginning again).
The site just started. So their data on how much has been donated daily is fun to look at. Sadly though I don't know Excel well enough to run the regressions I want to play with (and I didn't learn a few key steps in R). It does make me wonder why I don't see more about internet trends in word problems. (Maybe because the books that I'm looking at still talk about video and tape cassettes.) Note to people who are writing the word problems, let's get some of the data about MySpace and Facebook. Can we track growth of friend count? Is that appropriate?
Further note to myself, it's Friday night. I'm going to be working a lot this weekend. During your downtime it is okay to not think about lessons.
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