We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging. This step is to add a visitor tracking tool to your blog sidebar. Why Use Visitor Tracking Widgets? It’s likely that your blog gets visitors from around the world. But unless you find ways of displaying visitor numbers and their geographical locations, your students won’t appreciate that they’re publishing posts for a global audience. Benefits include: Knowing you’re writing for a global audience is incredibly motivating for students. Realizing people from other countries are reading what they’ve written increases their interest, excitement and motives them to blog. It also provides built-in geography lessons — as most students constantly check for new visitors and enjoy finding out more about the countries where their visitors are from. There’s numerous different types of visitor tracking widgets you can use, and it isn’t uncommon for teachers and students to use more ...