Hi Wayne I am not skilled at website design but have many ideas on how the Main page should look and what it can contain. I would be happy to give my inputs & volunteer to be on the Editorial board. Some suggestions are: * All the sections should be regularly changed, one team of two should be responsible for each section (like we have for UPE). *Two main new sections are needed, one Newbie Support and another to encourage members to get into more than what they learn at L4C workshops. Regularly a new idea can be put on main page & everyone encouraged to try it out. Will add more on hearing from you if my line of thinking is meaningful. Warm regards
Gita Mathur http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur On Mar 6, 11:00 am, "Patricia Schlicht" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 pagehttp://www.wikieducator.org/Special:RecentChanges > * The Content page which lists content > projectshttp://www.wikieducator.org/Content > * The India national page nodehttp://www.wikieducator.org/India > * The Iniatives page which lists projects in the > wikihttp://www.wikieducator.org/Initiatives > * The Otago Polytechnic sales and marketing course > pagehttp://www.wikieducator.org/Sales_and_Marketing > * The eXe online manualhttp://www.wikieducator.org/Online_manual > * A lesson on Forms of Energy developed by the HOD of Technology > Education, University of Education, Winneba in > Ghanahttp://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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
