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 Greetings,
Learners
 After
eight years in the making, this is my first news digest and update of the
Study Guides and Strategies (SGS) Web Site. I annually review the
past year’s accomplishments, with an eye to improving next year’s, as well
as to welcome your input, suggestions, critiques, and volunteer
opportunities. Thank you!
The
big news!
In January 2004, SGS moved to the new address/domain you
see at the head of this column. As an independent educational public
service, the new domain offers several advantages:
- Direct access to the Web site for developers across
institutional/national boundaries
- Better statistical tracking
- Continued support for FrontPage and its extensions
- Access to Java servlets and Java Server Pages for
features under development
- Support for Flash for features under development
- Enhanced support for foreign language translations
- Possibilities of developing organizational
partnerships and financial support.
Current
site annual metrics: (Feb 2004 - Jan 2005)
- Year 2004's traffic: 6.13 million page views,
an increase of 22.9%
(2003 traffic: 4.9 million)
- Busiest days in 2004:
December 12: 132,384 page views
September 21: 124,166 page views
- Traffic, January 2005:
764,363 page views; 3,505,160 files; 4,498,722 hits
Repeat visitors: 22%
- Projected traffic 2005: 8.5 million page views
Twenty gigabytes of monthly traffic, or 240 gigabytes annually
More
metrics:
- Open Directory Project: Top (starred) rated “
How to study”
- USATODAY's Hot Site 10/25/01 & 2/2004 “Best Bet for
Educators”
- Featured site: Human Performance Center, US Navy
- AltaVista:
15,720 web sites linked to the Guides
(1,920 current URL; 13,800 vestigial)
- GOOGLE search positioning:
- Top link (#1!) of 19,600,000 web sites
searching key words “study guides”
- 3rd
link of 686,000 web sites searching “persuasive essay”
- 5th link of 36,500,000 web sites searching
“time management”
- 7th link of 44,600 Spanish web sites searching
"mapas mentales"
- 9th link of 5,700,000 web sites searching “test
anxiety”
- 27th
link of 14,400,000 web sites searching
“genius”
- 22nd
link of 3,700,000 web sites searching “concept mapping”
- 318th
link of 16,800,000 web sites searching “distance education”
Ten
new guides in English
Newly re-organized into eleven sections. Guides
now total 114. Three were newly illustrated.
Translations
increased to 26 languages and 504 pages including the following added this
year:
- One page of Russian by Marina Khonina
- Two pages of Japanese by Jungi Nakagawa
- Four pages of Malayu Menado by Margaretha Liwoso of
Indonesia
- Four pages of Portuguese by Gelson
- Five pages of Chinese by Yuan Long 苑龙
- Eight pages of Swedish by Jimmy Ferm
- Ten pages of French by Joe Landsberger and Virginie
(Gini) Sanchez
- Fifteen pages of Spanish by Max Ardohain
- All 36 German pages
edited/revised by Stefanie Hauk
Keynotes
and Presentations
- Featured presentation and mentor,
Winter Institute for Learning Center Professionals, January
2005 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas: A great
conference hosted by great professionals who support learners in their
respective institutions!
- Keynote: “Learner-centered learning,”
Classrooms of the Future Regional Symposium, May 2004
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota: Another great learning
experience for higher education faculty and support professionals
(even administrators) in the five state area of Minnesota, North and
South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Iowar. Now in its eleventh year.
- Presentation
April 2004 ITeach 2004 Annual
Conference: Best Practices in Teaching with Technology
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Interactive
media project of 2004 and beyond...
Two Flash interactive exercises for
time management and
resolving equations were
developed in a collaboration with Dr. Brad Hokanson's students in his
course in Interactive Media (DHA 4384) Department of Design Housing
Apparel at the University of Minnesota. The student projects by
Ingrid Noble and Angela Tank, and Bridgette Lynch were "refined" by a team
that included Steve Kladstrup, Rochester, New York (independent Flash
author) and Matt Taylor, Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The time management weekly exercise was built in Java
by Francis Ssennoga.
Ideas?
I welcome ideas
and contributions
on further developing the web site.
Thank you for visiting!
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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,
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