Site Strategy and Progress
Our flagship Web site, Classroom Toolkit.Com averaged 96 visitors a day during the month of August, 2006. This was almost double last month's daily average.
A total of 2,977 visitors accessed 8,570 pages. These numbers beat our previous record (the month of July).
Pages in our site continue to be dropped by MSN™ (MSM™ but our site's pages continue to rank well with the Search Engines.
We have a number of pages in the top ten (First Page of the search results) for four Search Engines:
Google™ - 15 pages
Yahoo™ - 9 pages
MSN™ - 7 pages
Ask™ (formerly AskJeeves/Teoma) - 13 pages
Of these, our Number One ranking (Top site referenced for that search term) included:
Google™ - 8 pages
Yahoo™ - 5 pages
MSN™ - 4 pages
Ask™(formerly AskJeeves/Teoma) - 4 pages
We are working on a plan to distribute two CDs as "ISO images". This will allow us to share our Teacher Time-Saver/ Classroom Planning CD and our Graphics Organizer CD without having to pay for postage.
Current prices for distributing the CDs are:
- CD - $0.23
- Sleeve - $0.05
- Cover Printing (ink) - $0.05
- Mailing Envelope - $0.24
- Postage - $0.63
- Total Cost - $1.20
Providing every one of our site's visitors a free CD would cost over $3,500, and more next month. And, we would not have time to write because we would be spending so much time copying disks.
Creating the ISO Image will allow visitors to download the CD image and burn their own copy. Our cost, almost nothing, because we won a year's worth of un metered bandwidth in an eBay auction.
Look for word about these ISO images on our Blog, Website, and in next month's newsletter.
We are also developing our tutoring site, and will continue to add content.
You can preview this tutorial at:
Classroom Toolkit Tutorials
Of course, the first tutorials will be similar to the CDs, but the tutorials will be more interactive than the CDs.
A Further Note
Our Newsletter is formatted and published with the Open Source product, Serendipity™. Serendipity™ is really a Blogging system, but we have figured out how to configure it to function as a newsletter system.
This means that the power of this newsletter is available without cost for the software.
Our Tutorials are formatted and published using another Open Source product, Moodle™. Look for additional tutorials to be developed now that our July newsletter has been published.
Moodle™ is a Learning Management System (LMS).
Our only cost for publishing both of these resources is a hosting fee to Go-Daddy.Com for $3.95 per month.
