Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts

First of all, you have to understand the term Google Bomb.  Link here to Alan November’s “November Learning” site to read about it. The first time I ever heard his term was back in October of 2005, at the SC EdTech Conference, where Alan November was our keynote speaker. 

 Now there is a slew of ed tech experts asking all bloggers to drop a google bomb in an attempt to remove a potentially agenda ridden Martin Luther King white supremacist site from being the top ranked MLK website returned in a Google search for MLK.  The rank and popularity of the site marinlutherkingdotorg (I don’t want you link to it so this is a worded address, trying to avoid an automatic link.) stems from many of us educators using it as an example of how anyone can publish on the Internet, and how our continuous hits on this bad site filled with underlying messages and possibly misinformation has made Google’s algorithms that gauge page rank keep it in the top space or 2nd.  So someone has come up with the idea of a google bomb to lower the status of this site.  Come on, join in. Let’s sabotage that site’s ranking on Google.  Link to all of the following MLK sites. 

Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Check out Joyce Valenza’s Library Jeopardy Game designed to use at a PTA meeting with parents. It’s engaging, fun, and keeps a presentation about the library program from being dry and boring.  Teachers can download this and tweak it to fit their currculum needs. I love it’s simplicity.