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The following was originally published January 6, 2011 at http://jackieandkris.blogspot.com/2011/01/popularity-contest.html How popular are you? Really, how long has it been since you've thought about being popular? Come on, popularity has no room in education...does it? Actually, it does. Being respected, well liked, a source of information, and a resource for others are qualities that makeup a great educator. I have a new "Cha Ching" that I think you'll find to be very cool! With this resource you can find out how popular you really are - literally. Type in your name and see the ranking of popularity. It's called Word Count and it is a database of over 86,000 popular words ranked in order of popularity. Also great for teaching vocabulary and sight words [] One of my teachers sent me an email describing how she used this resource with her third grade students: //Just wanted to let you know we went wild with the word count. We did each person's name. They had to read the number orally their number. Then we listed each person and located greatest and least, did comparisons between partners, put people in order from least to greatest and vice versa. Tomorrow we plan to graph the results. The kids absolutely loved it.//