100,000

This blog crossed over the somewhat important 100,000 visits mark on my stats counter early in 2019. That is a nice solid number and I'm happy people have found the blog.

with a really small post about some of the Big Questions - How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone?

That 100k stat isn't all that impressive as blogs go. In fact, other blogs that I write on have bigger numbers. For example, I write on weekends on an aptly named Weekends in Paradelle, about big and small questions on a more personal level. That site is approaching the 400k mark now. My oldest blog, Serendipity35, which covers education + technology, crossed the 100 million mark a while ago.

But this site was a repurposed blog that I started just to experiment with the Blogger software. It had no theme or purpose and was just about things I noticed around the web. I repurposed it a few years ago with the idea of trying to post short entries that "educate" in some way in lots of different areas. The idea of a one-room schoolhouse came to mind.

One-room schools were once pretty commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. In these rural and small town schools (some of which literally used someone's house), all of the students met in a single room. A single teacher taught academic basics to different aged children at different  levels of elementary-age boys and girls.

I imagine that younger kids were hearing some of the older kids' lessons and older kids could get remedial lessons when the younger kids were being taught. I think that could be an interesting model of learning. I also think it would be a challenging teaching assignment. It's a topic I delve into a bit deeper on my other blog.