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Welcome!
For the past thirteen
(+) years I have researched, authored, maintained and supported the
Study Guides websites as an
independent educational public service. I have enjoyed collaborative projects across institutional, cultural and national boundaries. I resist
advertising, registration, and distracting graphics or features
that may interfere with maximizing learner access. I hope
you find the resource helpful.
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Web
site additions 2009January
1: Added 404 Custom error page
January 2: Revised
Time Management Guide
January 3: Revised Enews history by years
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Vietnamese version
published as a book in 2009! |
2008 Web site
metrics
Traffic 1997 - 2008
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Year |
Page views |
Increase |
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hits
million |
visits
million |
files
million |
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2008 |
15,435,695 |
20% |
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130.6 |
6.3 |
60.1 |
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2007 |
12,796,495 |
8.0% |
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82.3 |
5.1 |
36.6 |
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2006 |
11,849,732 |
41.7% |
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69.5 |
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2005 |
8,300,907 |
35.4% |
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2004 |
6,128,170 |
22.9% |
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2003 |
4,984,983 |
72.8% |
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2002 |
2,884,739
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48.5%
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2001 |
1,942,479 |
58.6% |
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2000 |
1,224,433 |
136.1% |
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1999 |
518,550 |
172.8% |
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1998 |
190,050 |
77.4%
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1997 |
107,114 |
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1996 |
n/a |
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2008
Traffic,
projects and additions
- 15,435,695 page
views/impressions, 20% increase over 2007
(130.6 million hits; 6.3 million visits;
60.1 million files)
- Added six guides in English
- Added fifteen Flash exercises
- Added three translations in
Persian, seven translations in Serbian, and one
in Indonesian!
Thank you volunteers!
- Added a system of sub-menus
for all Guides
- Added Google Ads where
permitted
- Added Google AdSearch
where permitted
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2007 summary
- Traffic increased 8.0% over 2006 to
12,796,495 page views
- Traffic increased
18.4% over 2006 to 82.3 million hits
- Added "paypal" donation feature
- Added three guides in
English
- Added two translations in Spanish, eight in French,
three
in Chinese, six in Portuguese, four in Persian/Farsi,
one in German, one in Turkish. 25 total!
Thank
you volunteers!
- Added Flash
interactive exercises
- According to Google February 3, 2008 the
website is linked to by over 24,100
websites
- Reformatted entire website
2006 summary
- Traffic increased 41.7% over 2005 to
11,849, 732 page views
- Traffic increased
31.3% over 2005 to 69,537,932 hits
- SGS gained a "7" out of 10 ranking with
Google
- SGS is highly placed in
a number of search terms, often in the top
ten out of millions.
- Added six guides in
English
- Added six
translations in Spanish, two in French,
two in Hungarian, four in Japanese, twelve
in Chinese, fourteen in Russian, thirteen
in Hebrew, three in Vietnamese, one in
Indonesian. 57 total!
Thank
you volunteers!
- Added sixteen Flash
interactive exercises in several
languages.
- According to Google,
the website is linked to by over 60,000
websites, over 10,000 by .edu domain.
Copyright
Permission is granted to freely copy, adapt, and
distribute individual Study Guides in print format in non-commercial
educational settings that benefit learners. No request to link to the Web
site is necessary. Please be aware that the Guides welcome, and are
under, continuous review and revision. For that reason, digital reproduction of
all content, especially on the Internet, can only be with permission through a licensed
agreement.
Licensing: Reproduction of individual Guides on
the Internet as well as Intranets is permitted under license for one-year
terms. The right to reproduce is non-exclusive, and must reference
the source site. Contact
Joe
for more information
Why license? Licensing permits you to install the
research-based content on your Internet or Intranet, preserving the
presentation (the "look and feel") of your website, minimizing visitor
disruption. A coherent and consistent interface minimizes disruption
(wandering!), and reinforces the efficiency of your viewer's experience
and your website's usability.
Policy on linking:
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All links must have
appropriate content related to the Study Guides, be
research-based, and suitable for a broad range of
learners
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All sites must be freely
accessible, not require registration, and generally be
free of advertising.
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Links to external sites
are not commercial, nor reciprocal
Contact:
E-mail distribution list:
by
emailing (below), you
- can receive annual or twice-annual newsletters on
this Study Guides Web site
- will be able to "de-list" yourself at any time
- will remain confidential and your e-mail address
will not be shared with anyone or organization
E-mail:
info@studygs.net
Phone:
(651) 297
9000
(Central Time, State of Minnesota, U.S.A.)
Thank you for your interest!
History
What do you say to us?
E-mail, organized by year, received since 1997.
Who is
Joe?
My professional and personal pages including my resume (curriculum
vitae/CV)
Where did the Guides come from?
How were they developed?
June 1993:
A preliminary
resource database of learning guides was created by Bob Nelson, et al,
Learning Resource Centers, Livingston Campus, Rutgers University in
June 1993. At the College Reading and Learning Association Conference
in April 1995, Joe attended a presentation by Bob on his resource, and
they quickly agreed that the FileMaker Pro database should be
converted to HTML and a web-based format. Rutgers University agreed
that year to provide the Guides free-of-charge and to Joe to reformat
into HTML, and host them on a Web site. This agreement continues to
this day, and the Guides are collaboratively
developed across institutional and national boundaries.
February 1996: Database
conversion to HTML by Joe Landsberger with the assistance of Peter
Turi, Budapest, Hungary.
September 1997: conversion to, and
further development with, Microsoft's FrontPage.
February 1999: Dublin Core Metadata
added.
March 2001: Visual Learner Project with Inspiration Software
"Mapping the Guides"
Summer 2002:
Each of the 525 pages/Guides in the web site are
totally re-formatted! to the new look
Summer 2003: Development of the first interactive Guides
January 2004: New domain/URL adopted
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007
Who develops these Guides?
Joe Landsberger developed an additional
85 guides from the original data base of 50, often at the suggestion
of others. The original 50 were also revised and edited to fit the new
format. Joe's main interest is providing, and digesting, educational
research into an understandable and accessible form to help learners
help themselves. He often recognizes his own inadequacies and writes
guides to help himself progress. He understands that the format is
simplistic and passive, and someday hopes to develop additional
materials!
How are the Guides developed?
The Guides are developed directly from
educational research. Often they are digests of existing web pages
reformatted with permission to the Study Guides' Web site's style. In
some cases they are copies of information found elsewhere, copied with
permission. In other cases they are combinations of research projects
and papers. All contributions have been voluntary, and used with
permission as much as possible. Translations are voluntary also, often
in exchanges with educational and commercial sites. In some cases,
Guides are mirrored or reproduced, even reformatted, on collaborators'
servers.
The process for developing new Guides
is simple: research is compiled and "dumped" into a common text. This
text is printed, and then reviewed. Key words and concepts are
highlighted, and then all the extraneous text deleted. The Guide is
then written out of these key words and concepts into a web-friendly
format. c.f.
Writing for the Web
What is the philosophy of the design?
The Guides are intended to be
straight-forward recipes on selected topics. The vocabulary and
concepts have a middle school level in mind as foundation. Few image
files are used. A few Guides have two versions: one designed with
graphics illustrating concepts, and one without. There are no
advertisements, no special effects, no flash. Nothing is added to
distract from the content.
Why the translations?
The goal of the Guides are to help
learners. With the international traffic they have been attracting, it
is better to reach students of all ages in their native language.
However, the goal is also to be sensitive to customs in the cultures
where the language is spoken. All translations are volunteered and
every attempt is made to independently verify them.
Please see the page of
credits!
Website overview: Since 1996 the
Study Guides and Strategies web site
has been researched, authored, maintained and supported by
Joe Landsberger
as an international, learner-centric, educational public service. Permission is granted to freely copy, adapt,
and distribute individual Study Guides in print format in non-commercial educational settings that benefit learners. Please be aware that the Guides welcome, and are under, continuous review and revision. For that reason, reproduction of all content on the Internet
can only be with permission through a licensed
agreement. No request to link to the Web site is necessary.
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