Teach Me Help Me Educational Services has been offering onsite test preparation and literacy workshops through Irvine Valley College since 2007. In 2010, we’re expanding our on-site workshop locations to include Twin Peaks, California, centrally located midway between Wrightwood and Big Bear mountain resorts, and just 4 miles from Lake Arrowhead , California, an internationally renowned mountain resort community.
For some time now, we have been evaluating our hundreds of free, edu-social online sites and web-services into families of sites. Recently, we’ve categorized our sites into families and named each family based on the specific niche content and services each provides. From the very beginning we have envisioned taking part in creating the internet to be a more transformative technology tool in people’s lives all over the planet. We strongly believe that a ballanced internet is key to our planet’s progress and survival. We would like to see the internet’s priorities as:
1. Primarily known for providing tools for success and empowerment.
2. Secondarily known for information, entertainment and other elective pursuits.
We would like to believe that most of our sites fit in category 1 above.
Here is a list of our 25 transformative families of edusocial online websites and services, in no particular order:
1. Mountain Web Tools
2. EduSocial Web Tools
3. ESL Web Tools
4. Literary Web Tools
5. Teacher Web Tools
6. Student Web Tools
7. School Web Tools
8. Senior Web Tools
9. Tourism Web Tools
10. Music Web Tools
11. Business Web Tools
12. Internet Web Tools
13. Language Web Tools
14. Educational Web Tools
15. Forum Hosting Sites
16. Blog Hosting Sites
17. Photo Hosting Sites
18. MultiMedia Sites
19. Poll Hosting Sites
20. Online Article Sites
21. Online Game Sites
22. Online Postcard Sites
23. Link Directory Sites
24. Online Guestbook Sites
25. Online Chat Sites
Each of these families of sites now have their own specific blog within our TeachMeHelpMe.com site which identifies the different sites included in each family as well as helpful guidance, upcoming news, and information. In addition, each of our families of sites now have a Twitter page, where news, helpful links, and helpful tips are shared. In addition, we have created individual pages for each of our families on Facebook, in order to offer a constructive, collaborative, and interactive community for our visitors and members. Later in 2010, once we complete construction of our individual blog gateways for each of our families of online sites and services, we will consider additional social networking tools.
What are some of our planned online projects for 2010, providing there is sufficient growth in traffic to our websites, as well as peace and well being all around:
1. We would like to possibly add one or more servers, or transition to a web cluster for more capacity, and faster loading times.
2. Since our current revenue from our site advertising matches only about 3% of our monthly costs, not including the hundreds of hours spent managing our sites, we plan on reviewing various other advertising options, including on-site workshops for current and possible members interested in our various niche products and services. We may offer the option of adding additional web-space to our hosting site members who are interested, and are also looking at the possibility of selling website domains.
3. We’re highly interested in social media, especially keeping our eyes on Twitter, and aim to offer services for Twitter users who wish to get context-based Twitter feeds, as well as submit their tweets remotely and asynchronously. Also, we’re looking into putting together Web 2.0 and Social Media workshops to assist digital immigrants take their first steps in publishing on the internet.
4. We’re also highly interested in offering online chat, virtual world 3D communities, as well as in community and city portal established scripts, and aim to look into the feasibility of working with small communities and offering these as part of our EduSocial Web Tools services.
5. We’re continuing our quest for helpful Web 2.0 web scripts of tools and online-resources to adapt and offer in the upcoming future. Our goal is to offer 10 new online services and sites by the end of 2010 that would include # 3 and # 4 above as well.
We would greatly appreciate any constructive suggestions and advice from our site visitors and members, and remain available via our Skype account at: TeachMeHelpMe via voice-message or phone as well.
Thank you for joining us,
Ioan Elvis Sersea, M.A., M.A.T.
Teach Me Help Me Educational Services Founder, Webmaster, Workshop Presenter
