http://www.teach42.com/2007/05/02/stephen-dembo-where-are-you/ Education and Technology by Steve Dembo Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.teach42.com/2007/05/02/stephen-dembo-where-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-67579 Joe Brennan Sat, 05 May 2007 02:46:07 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2007/05/02/stephen-dembo-where-are-you/#comment-67579 Lots of Joseph Brennans, but only 99.65% are males. Lots of Joseph Brennans, but only 99.65% are males.

]]> http://www.teach42.com/2007/05/02/stephen-dembo-where-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-67507 Andrew Pass Fri, 04 May 2007 02:23:28 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2007/05/02/stephen-dembo-where-are-you/#comment-67507 How accurate do you think this is? It says that there are 14 other people in the country named Andrew Pass. I never would have guessed there were so many. It makes me a feel a little less unique. How accurate do you think this is? It says that there are 14 other people in the country named Andrew Pass. I never would have guessed there were so many. It makes me a feel a little less unique.

]]> http://www.teach42.com/2007/05/02/stephen-dembo-where-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-67483 The Tech Savvy Educator » Blog Archive » Me & My Clones - A Writing Prompt Thu, 03 May 2007 19:25:13 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2007/05/02/stephen-dembo-where-are-you/#comment-67483 [...] Thist post has been a long time coming, as I stumbled upon the How Many of Me website a few months back, but haven’t had any ideas of how to use it in the classroom until Steve Dembo wrote about it yesterday, and jogged my memory. Using U.S. census data, you can search for other people with your same first and last names. For example, a search for James Bond yields 1,054 double-o agents running loose around America. How Many of Me will also tell you how many others in the U.S. share just your first name or last name, so you can see how popular, or unpopular, your namesake happens to be. While there are over 117,000 people that share my first name, because of the low occurance of my last name (only 1500), there’s only one person in the country named Ben Rimes; me! [...] [...] Thist post has been a long time coming, as I stumbled upon the How Many of Me website a few months back, but haven’t had any ideas of how to use it in the classroom until Steve Dembo wrote about it yesterday, and jogged my memory. Using U.S. census data, you can search for other people with your same first and last names. For example, a search for James Bond yields 1,054 double-o agents running loose around America. How Many of Me will also tell you how many others in the U.S. share just your first name or last name, so you can see how popular, or unpopular, your namesake happens to be. While there are over 117,000 people that share my first name, because of the low occurance of my last name (only 1500), there’s only one person in the country named Ben Rimes; me! [...]

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