Annenberg Institute for School Reform

[Skip Zilla]

"The Annenberg Institute for School Reform develops and shares knowledge to help urban communities, schools and districts collaborate on building smart systems that provide excellent education and equitable opportunities for every student."

"The Institute’s idea of a smart education system calls for the integration of opportunities that promote high-quality student learning and development wherever they occur — at school, at home, and in the community."

Like the Institute for School Reform, there are a number of other educational organizations and programs established with funding from the Annenberg Foundation.

Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming ... developed by Annenberg Media. (Nice interface to resources available.)

[Skip Zilla]

The Annenberg Channel is a free satellite channel for schools, colleges, libraries, public broadcasting stations, public access channels, and other community agencies. It is presented 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and airs an extraordinary range of teacher professional development and instructional programs funded by Annenberg Media. It is available to any non-commercial agency with a Ku-band satellite dish and a DigiCipher II satellite receiver.

Here's a link to an online simulcast of the Annenberg Channel. You don't need a satellite receiver to view the program content using this online simulcast.

[Daniel Bassill]

Skip, here's a couple of links to places on my site where I post links to research on education, NCLB, dropout issues, etc. Look here, and here.

I've more than 140 links in these two sections alone, out of 1400 or more on my site. While I recorded 100,000 visits to the site in 2007, this really is a fraction of the number of people who we'd like to be reading and reacting to this type of information. Since there is so much knowledge, and more is being added, I feel we need to figure ways to get people personally involved, and keep them involved for many years, so they can absorb this information over time.

I've not figured out how to do that, other than collecting and organizing the knowledge I focus on, and then sharing the links in places where others are focused on the same issues.

[Skip Zilla]

Daniel,
You've compiled some great resources! There's a new member named April Sage who knows a lot about increasing visits to websites. You might want to ask her how it's done.
Skip

[Daniel Bassill]

I did a summary of my web traffic for the past year and the total was 100,000 visits and 1 million page views. I'm always looking for ideas for increasing traffic. My own strategy is outlined in this pdf on collaboration: http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/Partner/CC/Presentations/collabo...

This strategy draws from the power of the network for increasing traffic to a network of web sites that share information about a common purpose, rather than any single organizations actions toward this goal. It reflects the lack of resources (time and money) that most of us have to put into marketing our own ideas and services.