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Learning from Google Trends

Some interesting evidence about our education activity levels throughout the year from Google Trends.

Google Trends Can Be Your Friend

Some interesting evidence about our education activity levels throughout the year from Google Trends.
Teachers Searching for Lesson Plans Teachers Searching for Lesson Plans

Recently, Google added a new service called Google Trends.  It's located here:

http://google.com/trends

Rather than me explain it, just click on the link above and give it a whirl.  In short, it shows you how popular a given search term has been on google over time and more.  Descriptions do not do it justice however.

I think the service is so interesting that I want to introduce both it and my interpretation of some of the results as part of understanding better how and when to communicate with various audiences.

So, here are some interesting searches I did:

1) When are teachers looking for lesson plans?

Click on the URL here for full details. (http://www.google.com/trends?q=lesson+plans%...all&date=all)


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