Come Fishing With Mehttp://www.MidTESOL.org by William R. Eubank I love my volunteer "job" as Webmaster for MidTESOL. It gives me an opportunity to combine several vocations and avocations. There are elements of teaching, writing, publishing, salesmanship and fishing in the construction of every web site. I have always enjoyed living and working on a "frontier" - twenty years in the Aleutians of Alaska; three years in Yunnan, China; and many years working as an ESL / EFL teacher. Right now, the Internet is still very much a frontier. The fishing part comes in setting out lines (files) and then seeing what they have caught at the end of a certain period. To do this, I have several programs that analyze the access.log file that records every visitor and each file that is delivered to their computer. During the last 90 days, 1,326 "first time" visitors* (15 a day) arrived at the MidTESOL web site. What did they come to see? What drew them to the site? We had the following: 560 page views** of "Teaching Reading Skills: Tips From The Trenches" by Tracy Henninger-Chiang.The site is up and running, and visitors are finding it and returning! Won't you join me on this fishing expedition? I'll take care of the technical part - getting the files out there - you just need to send me the bait.
*I am aware of the finer points of log file issues - unique IP address vs. actual
visitors vs. actual visits.
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******************* ARTICLES The Catcher in The RyeFull article from the Newsletter Teaching Reading Skills: Tips From The Trenches
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Last updated on 06-21-99
