January 3, 2008
Seth Godin discusses his early approach to doing business on the Web and shows how a fixed perspective didn’t help with a market that is in constant transition. A pre-determined agenda, combined with the desire to use the assets on hand plus an assumption that nothing would change, spelled failure.
How about education?
Agenda: We need to follow the curriculum.Assets: Let’s keep our classrooms full and teachers employed.Assumption: Everything happening outside the classroom is not influencing the students, parents or legislators.
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January 3, 2008
In three weeks of February, the Barack Obama entry in Wikipedia had almost 2 million views and was the seventh most visited (and, really, second most visited in terms of content) article on the site. John McCain’s had 1.1 million. Hillary Clinton, who apparently more people “know” about, had about 422,000. In those same three weeks, the Wikipedia home page got over 140 million views.
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January 3, 2008
I had to make a lot of difficult choices to come up with this latest “The Best…” list.
One decision I made was to focus this list more on Beginning and Early Intermediate English Language Learners, or for more advanced ELL’s who primarily would use these sites more to “brush-up” or review some basic pronunciation skills. I am developing another list that I’ll call The Best Sites For Developing English Conversational Skills. That one will probably be geared more towards Intermediate and Advanced English Language Learners, and will include more of the sites I received from readers in my call for recommendations.
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