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Welcome! For the past twelve (+) 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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• May 2 three spelling exercises
• April advertising on most pages
• March 3 New guide and Flash exercise on Flashcards
• February 19 Flash exercise on Classroom Presentations
• February 11 New guide and exercise on Budgeting
• February 11 Flash exercise on Prefixes (revised)
• February 10 Flash exercise on Short Answer Tests
• February 9 Flash exercise on Motivation
• February 2 Indonesian translation Adult Education
• January 24 Flash exercise on Mapping
• January 19 Flash exercise on Prefixes
• January 19 Flash exercise on Word Problems II
• January 19 Flash exercise on Word Problems I

April 2008:  1,334,072 page views, 39.4% increase over April 2007
March 2008: 1,359,071 page views, 25.4% increase over March 2007
February 2008: 1,314,002 page views, 25.9% increase over February 2007
January, 2008: 1,321,842 page views, 7.9% over January 2007
December, 2007: 989,240 page views, 12.3% increase over Dec 2006
November: 1,210,333 page views, 9.3% increase over Nov 2006
October: 1,295,085 page views, 2.1% increase over Oct 2006
September: 1,232,960 page views, 7% increase over Sept 2006
August:  954,790 page views, 2.3% increase over August 2006
July: 822,892 page views, 6.8% increase over July 2006
June: 939,687 page views, 18.7% increase over June 2006
May: 1,042,459 page views, 16.6% increase over May 2006

Traffic for the year 2007
12,796,495 page views/impressions; 8% increase over 2007.
(82,3 million hits; 5,1 million visits; 63,6 million files)
Traffic, projects and additions 2006
Traffic, projects and additions 2005
Traffic, projects and additions 2004

Traffic 1997 - 2006

2007 summary (under development)

• 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:

• All links must have appropriate content related to the Study Guides, be research-based, and suitable for a broad range of learners

• All sites must be freely accessible, not require registration, and generally be free of advertising.

• Links to external sites are not commercial, nor reciprocal

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• will remain confidential and your e-mail address will not be shared with anyone or organization

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Phone: (651) 297 9000
(Central Time, State of Minnesota, U.S.A.)

Thank you for your interest!

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
2005: see the news

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!

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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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