I’m weeks behind schedule on my update to LessonIndex.com, but of course classroom teachers can’t ignore the calendar so easily: traffic at LessonIndex.com has surged by 60% in the past two weeks. Welcome back!
Google AdWords Support has confirmed: if any pages on my web site include affiliate links, my entire site is banned from using AdWords. They “recommend” that I decimate the usefulness of my directory web site if I want to advertise through AdWords.
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I noticed that several states have begun “rolling back” kindergarten enrollments, so that this year and in each of the next few years, students will need to be 1 month older to enter kindergarten. What impact will the flow of these smaller cohorts have on our schools?
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On my personal/professional blog, I posted an entry asking what other web developers and designers think of the LessonIndex.com web site. Click here to see that article.
Free: 14 Pre-Recorded Webinars related to ELA Common Core State Standards (Sponsored by Pearson and hosted on Pearson’s BrainShark site; requires registration but no confirmation — so if you don’t want to receive emails or other solicitations, you can register with garbage info). Read more »
Free! Videos of all 45 sessions of the Google “Education on Air” Conference are now online:
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Free! Stenhouse Publishers is offering “free previews” for the following seven Pembroke titles. You can read the entire text of the books online, for free (registration isn’t even required). Read more »
It’s kind of fun to look at the graph of weekly traffic at LessonIndex.com since August, viewed as a proxy for “lesson planning activity.”
You can see quite clearly what happened during the holiday season: there’s a sharp drop for Thanksgiving, and a bigger plunge during the Christmas/New Year’s break. (Note that the baseline for this graph is not zero.)
Update May 24: I’ve replaced the earlier graph with one that extends from September through mid-May. You can see “spring break” and the overall decline as the end of the school year approaches.