Taylor the Teacher

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I’ve always watched the keywords that bring people to my blog with interest. I just figured out today how to get Google Analytics to show me all the keyword searches that brought visitors to this blog since the beginning. You know, way back in August? Findings were interesting to me, kinda the way people care deeply about their own zits. Hits included 11 uses of sex or variants thereof, a bunch for school fights, Tupac, Eminem, Slim Shady, Dooce, Futurama, Matt Groenig, and the Raven. Predictable. Six uses of the word “fuck:” Also predictable.

I did find it interesting the large number of searchers who arrived here looking for information about Andrew Brody of the Princeton Review’s LSAT Logic in Everyday Life podcast, which I wrote about once — months ago.

I got some questions I couldn’t answer: Do cheerleaders wear hose? & How does dooce make money?

I got a few questions I’d like to answer:

• What do teachers being observed want to know?

• Isn’t that question backwards? What do administrators who are observing teachers want to know? Isn’t that all that matters?

• I asked this question of my students several months ago on a survey. Consensus was that out of school fights end when someone can’t get up off the ground or the police arrive.

• Don’t use myspace. It’s obnoxious.

• The folks at lifehacker can answer that.

• Yes, I believe so. I’ve seen a picture on her blog before, but couldn’t find it again later. But I saw it. She’s black.

• Why are you so nosey? Leave her kids alone. Go take your meds.

• Dooce lives in Salt Lake City Utah. This isn’t a secret.