Nellie, In WE dreams can come true! Thanks for your offer to volunteer --- I've added your name to the list here:
http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Website_redesign I deduce from your post that a redesign is needed? Cheers Wayne On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 21:34 -0700, NELLIE DEUTSCH wrote: > Wayne, > I would gladly help with the redesign. I would also like to suggest > features that make the environment more of a social network like ning. > That would be a dream come true. > Thank you. > Warm wishes, > Nellie Deutsch > Doctoral Student > Educational Leadership > Curriculum and Instruction > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller > skype:nelliedeutschmuller > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi everyone > > Open questions: > > 1) Should WE redesign its homepage and important landing > pages? > 2) Will improved information design of the WE main page and > important > landing pages improve retention? > 3) Should WE form a working group to consider proposals for > Website > redesign? > 4) If so -- do we have any volunteers who will put their hands > up in > thinking about redesigning the website? (Especially folk who > have good > experience in this area -- but everyone is most welcome to > give a hand). > > A little background info > > Website referrals and direct traffic account for 26% of our > total visits > with search engine referrals making up the balance. On average > visitors > to WE view 3.62 pages per visit. What's interesting is that > our home > page makes up only 3% of our total page views -- suggesting > that folk do > find specific content pages in the wiki. > > Other top ranked pages, include, for instance: > > * The recent changes page > http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:RecentChanges > * The Content page which lists content projects > http://www.wikieducator.org/Content > * The India national page node > http://www.wikieducator.org/India > * The Iniatives page which lists projects in the wiki > http://www.wikieducator.org/Initiatives > * The Otago Polytechnic sales and marketing course page > http://www.wikieducator.org/Sales_and_Marketing > * The eXe online manual > http://www.wikieducator.org/Online_manual > * A lesson on Forms of Energy developed by the HOD of > Technology > Education, University of Education, Winneba in Ghana > > http://www.wikieducator.org/Lesson_1:_Forms_of_Energy_and_Energy_Transformations > > It's risky to postulate definitive conclusions based on these > stats but > I guess its reasonable to say: > > 1. Educators are interested in monitoring and observing > changes in the > wiki > 2. Important landing pages include content listings, WE > initiatives/projects and national project nodes > 3. Individual content projects in WE do attract significant > traffic. > > What does this mean for the information design of our site? > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
