Learning from a blog....

Good listening and learning by a vendor...

I read on a blog about an interesting effort by a vendor to learn about their members and how their services work and can be improved. It was a learning experiment.

And I quote:

The blog - web home schooling - was started by Time4Learning as a learning experiment.We asked half a dozen parents (actually, all moms) of students using Time4Learning to write on this group blog about the details of their homeschooling program. What their days were like and what they worried about. And were happy about.

More specifically, we wanted to know what was working for them and what wasn’t in terms of their use of online educational materials.

--- it continued for awhile and concluded with......

What did we learn? We learned a lot of details and about other products that are used in conjunction with us. We learned that most homeschool curriculums are a home-made eclectic mix optimized for each child. And that there is different mix of planning, routine, and spontenity for each family. We were stunned to find out how unique and useful our service really is. My favorite posts:
The gifted child, with autism, with Time4Learning
How the Internet changes everything….for homeschoolers
T4L - How it helps everyone. Mom too.



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Keyboarding Games is succesful

Keyboarding games, from a review of my stats of kids learning games, turns out to be very successful. Oddly, the number one search term is for that page but is for typing games.

The two biggest consumers of bandwidth are the hurricane song and the Sun Science Song.

The site also does well with the term free kids learning games and free typing games.

The other page that does well is about free memory improvement games.

Our goal is to have November be 2.5 x in terms of players and visitors coming to this sweet learning game site.



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