Sure, Wayne and thanks Patricia
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Volunteers: Working group for Website redesign? Hey Patricia, Welcome to our growing group of volunteers :-) Really appreciate your offer. I've added your name to the volunteer list here: http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Website_redesign Great ideas coming in --- will you add these to our Brainstorm section on the page above. Don't want to loose these thoughts. Cheers Wayne On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 21:37 -0800, Patricia Schlicht wrote: Wayne, Hi I have been looking at the homepage the other day and though that it is time to change it, so your question comes timely. I would love being part of the new design efforts. I think it is important to create a home page that provides updates on the processes and decisions, provides directions on how to do things (a summary of findings) and things that can be added to which lead to improvements, WE news, course offerings including courses that are offered in the community which were developed on the Wiki etc., featured institutions (and institutions for instance having hosted L4C workshops, could be featured, showing what they have made of the initial trainings, such as Kenya Institute of Education. These are just off the top of my head thoughts. Cheers, Patricia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WikiEducator] Volunteers: Working group for Website redesign? 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_Transfo rmations 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
