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 Traffic, 2006
increased...
41.7% over 2005 to
11,849, 732 page views
31.3% over 2005 to 69,537,932 hits
The website has a "7" out of 10 ranking with
Google.
December:
881,198 page views, 13.4% over December
2005
November:
1,106,902 page views, 23.3% over November
2005
October:
1,268,130 page views, 37.3% over October
2005
September:
1,151293 page views, 32.3% over September
2005
August:
932.865 page views, 37% over August 2005
July:
770,771
page views, 25.4% over
July 2005
June:
791,241 page views, 48.1% over June 2005
May:
894,081 page views, 43.8% over
May 2005
April:
939,228 page views, 74.3% over April
2005
March:
1,252,367 page views, 111% over
March 2005
February:
868,000 page views, 39.9% over
February 2005
January: 915,179 page
views, 19.7% over January 2005
Traffic for the year 2005
8.4 million page views, an increase 51% over 2004
Publications/collaborations/applications/presentations
Since 1999:
Columnist "Learning by Design" for the
Association for Educational Communications and
Technology peer-reviewed magazine Tech
Trends,
October: consultant/developer of
courses, learning objects, and online learning
communities for the Minnesota State System of
Colleges and Universities (MNSCU)
Fall Semester: Student media/Flash exercises with Dr. Brad Hokanson, Interactive
Media (DHA 4384) Department of Design,
University of Minnesota
September: columnist
for military.com educational newsletter.
August: Worker
Preparedness Training Services, La Mujer
Obrera, El Paso, Texas.
A bilingual workforce training, adult
education, and social enterprise program for
workers
with limited English proficiency displaced by the North American
Free Trade
Act.
August: "My Child's 1st Teacher,"
featured the Study Guides for the month on the
public access cable TV program in Arlington,
Virginia
August:
Independence Community College TRIO program
A
series of
eight
educational opportunity outreach
federally-supported programs
designed to motivate and support students from
disadvantaged backgrounds
July 3-5: Higher
Education Academy 2006 Annual Conference, East
Midlands Conference Centre (EMCC), University
of Nottingham's Park Campus, England
June 27-28: Keynote and two workshops at
the University of Wolverhampton, England.
Keynote | Workshop I | Workshop II |
SGS Project plan
overview (wmf)
Presentations available upon request.
June 22: Community Services
Addictions Certificate Program, Saskatchewan
Indian Institute of Technologies.
June 22: After school hurricane
relief program, Shreveport, Louisiana in
conjunction with the Baptist Convention and
InspireWorks, Inc.
June 15: Collaboration with Dr. Ton
Quang Cuong, Assistant Dean for
Research and Student Affairs Dept.
Teaching-Learning Methodology & Technologies,
Faculty of Education, Vietnam National
University, Hanoi
May 18: Presentation for the
Tutoring Workgroup Meeting, Minnesota Online,
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Spring Semester: Student media/Flash exercises with Dr. Brad Hokanson, Interactive
Media (DHA 4384) Department of Design,
University of Minnesota
January 25: Collaboration with the “Quest for Learning” (QFL)
project in Ireland, funded through the Minerva funding stream of the
European Union (EU). QFL projects support learners
with disabilities, developing a range of on-line resources related to
learning and employability. Inconjunction with the Irish Training and Employment Authority (FÁS)
e-College
January 20:
Excerpts from the Study Guides website printed in Perez,
Raymund, Runways for English II, JFC Publishing House, Inc.,
Manilla, Philippines. In print March 2006
SGS
maintenance and development
projects, 2006:
- Keep the website free of advertising
- Recruit, coordinate, promote,
develop translations
- Incorporate a course/content management tool (CMS: Moodle?)
in order to develop virtual peer learning
communities to facilitate sharing learner experiences
within a constructive
environment
- A print version of the Guides
- Develop
alternative text- and CD-based manual
building upon SGS Website
- Report/audit of website (traffic,
functionality, etc.)
- Develop
project plan for validating SGS assets
- Develop
face-to-face pilot course on keys to
academic success based upon SGS Website
- Migration
of pilot course on keys to academic
success to an on-line environment
- Program
project plan for further development of
learner profile instrument
Additions:
(complete list of translators)
December 26:
New Guide/topic:
Modeling constructive use of
feedback,
a classroom exercise
December 3:
New Guide/topic:
Using feedback
November: Google page rank:
Index is rated 7 of 10
September 20:
One Spanish translation added by Beatriz
Palomo de Lewin
September 5:
One Spanish translation added by Alma Z'Cruz
August 25: One
French translation added by Chris Touzelet
August 18: Two
Hungarian (new language) translations added by
Kolozsvári Orsolya
August 15: One
French translation added by Chris Touzelet
July 31: New
Guide/topic:
Reading and studying science textbooks
July 25: New
Guide/topic:
Developing and analyzing writing assignment
topics
July 20: One Spanish translation
added by Beatriz Palomo de Lewin
July 19: One
interactive "Flash" exercise in Chinese
(duplicate of linear equations)
July 18: New Guide/topic:
Developing self-discipline
June 10:
Ten interactive "Flash"
exercises added to individual Guides.
May 30:
Five interactive "Flash"
exercises added to individual Guides.
May 25:
Three Japanese translations
added by Sean Loughman/ショーン ロックマン
May 18:
One Chinese
translation added by 彭海杰/Haijie Peng
May 17: New Guide/topic:
Reading fiction
May 15:
One Chinese
translation added by 彭海杰/Haijie Peng
April 22:
One Chinese
translation added by 彭海杰/Haijie Peng
April 19:
Three Chinese
translations added by 彭海杰/Haijie Peng
April 14: Six Chinese translations
added by 彭海杰/Haijie Peng
April 4:
One Japanese translation
added by Sean Loughman/ショーン ロックマン
March 28:
Two
Spanish translations added by Alejandra
Candia
March 25: Four Russian translations are added by Elena Gavrikova/Е.Гаврикова.
March 15: One
Spanish translation added by Alejandra
Candia
February 6: Two Hebrew translations added by
Monica Valk
January 31: Six Russian translations are added by Elena Gavrikova/Е.Гаврикова.
January 30: Three Hebrew translations added by
Monica Valk
January 26: One Indonesian translation added by Dr. Margaretha Liwoso
January 23:
Three Hebrew translations added by Monica Valk/
January 18:
Four Russian translations are added by Elena Gavrikova/Е.Гаврикова.
January 5:
Five Hebrew translations are added by Monica Valk/
January 4: Three Vietnamese translations are added by
Đỗ
Ngọc Bích
March
31 benefit
The Study Guides organized
and hosted a benefit and raised over
US$2,800 for the City of Hope, Puebla México.
The charity provides shelter and schooling
for homeless children. The benefit marked
the occasion of Joe's professional
transition to devoting more resources in supporting
our international community of learners through the Study Guides, through
presentations at workshops and conferences, and through writing.
Copyright
The Study Guides and Strategies web
site is authored, developed and maintained by
Joe
Landsberger as an educational public service. Suggestions,
comments, critiques, etc. are warmly welcomed in the interest of helping
learners worldwide. Translations have been collaboratively developed
across institutional and national boundaries. Additional
contributions and translations are warmly received.
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, reproduction of
all content on the Internet can only be with permission through a licensed
agreement.
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History
What do you say to us?
E-mail, organized by year, received since 1997.
Who is
Joe?
My 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 developmentwith, 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!
Complete
2005 website statistics, metrics and
developments
Traffic 1997 - 2004
|
Year |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
|
Page views |
107,114 |
190,050 |
518,550 |
1,224,433 |
1,942,479 |
2,884,739 |
4,984,983 |
6,128,170 |
8,300,907 |
|
Increase |
|
77.4%
|
172.8% |
136.1% |
58.6%
|
48.5%
|
72.8%
|
22.9%
|
35.4% |
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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