Are you a school in which every social networking site is blocked? Well, you just need to download our new tool. Twiducate is pleased to announce a proxy tool that not only allows sites like Facebook and youTube to be seen at school, it permanently unblocks them!
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A mobile version of twiducate has been launched today.
If you have a mobile device, check it out at http://m.twiducate.com.
There has been a lot for request for this and it has been in the works for sometime. The difficulty is always with which options makes the mobile version and which get cut. We will leave it as it is for now and listen closely to the feedback and reactions!
http://m.twiducate.com
According to Google Analytics, (and I know March is not quite over YET) twiducate has received 15,000 visitors this month viewing 175,000 pages. Each person averages 10+ pageviews and stays for 9 minutes. Fortunately our bounce rate is low (19% – or at least I THINK it is low). Most importantly, 36% of this months visitors were new.
Is this a great feat? I’m not sure, but the site was just launched at the end of 2009. Keep in mind many schools were out for March / Spring Break as well.
Lets compare the stats to February:
8000 visitors, 100,000 pageviews, 20% bounce rate
The site is growing, since our numbers doubled this month (and there are still a few days left).
Hopefully we do the same in April! Or even triple the stats from February.
7600+ twiducate accounts now exist and 25,000 posts have been sent in classrooms all over the world.
This is a breakdown by country for March:
(Country)(Visitors)(Avg Pageviews)(Avg Time)(New Visits)(Bounce)
| 1. | 7,513 | 12.06 | 00:09:43 | 41.13% | 21.94% | |
| 2. | 2,941 | 11.30 | 00:10:21 | 30.16% | 12.38% | |
| 3. | 1,692 | 13.10 | 00:09:53 | 31.21% | 10.17% | |
| 4. | 927 | 5.79 | 00:07:45 | 12.51% | 20.82% | |
| 5. | 401 | 15.86 | 00:13:42 | 62.09% | 13.97% | |
| 6. | 375 | 4.49 | 00:03:59 | 16.80% | 33.33% | |
| 7. | 342 | 7.08 | 00:07:48 | 24.56% | 11.11% | |
| 8. | 265 | 4.96 | 00:04:28 | 27.55% | 18.11% | |
| 9. | 242 | 12.89 | 00:18:45 | 40.08% | 9.50% | |
The sidebar of your network will now list the number of people online in your network. To see who they are, look for the blue box around their avatars.
6200+ accounts as of now. Help spread the word!
Sorry for the duplicate emails recently.
Seems to be a problem with the mailing list. Looking into it. Until fixed, we won’t bother you anymore with updates….PROMISE!
Share tests, assignments, events, etc. with your students in the new ‘important dates’ section. Add dates, titles and descriptions to each event.
Added today.
Should be working 100% on all classes. Please let us know of any problems.
Brian
There has been some request to revert twiducate back to when students could NOT edit and delete their posts in case of inappropriateness.
As such, it is now an option in the teacher ‘Profile’ section. Allowing your students to edit and delete their own posts is entirely up to you.
By default, students CAN edit and delete. If you don’t want them to, check the appropriate box in your profile.
Students can now delete and edit their own posts. Teachers can edit their own and delete ANY post, not just their own.
Also added the HTML component to the comments box.
Happy Saturday!
A timestamp has been added to all posts. As such, teachers must update their timezone settings in their profile section.
Students do not have to make any profile changes.
If this change is not made, the displayed timestamp on the posts will be our server time.
As of the the time of this writing, twiducate is averaging 4000 hits a day and users have posted 10,544 messages withing their classroom networks.
Do you use twiducate?
Help spread the word to fellow colleagues!