Educational institutions who use write-out-loud articles and printables
By: Susan Dugdale
Material from write-out-loud.com is frequently used by educational institutions of all sorts: elementary schools, high schools, community colleges, universities, technical institutes...
And they come from all over the world: USA, Australia, Belgium, France, Spain, Singapore, Ukraine...
Out of curiosity to see exactly where they all were and what pages they referred their students to, I began collecting their links as I found them in one of the web analytics tools, I use to help me understand more about how people use the site.
The result is the list you see below. They are the links I found over the period March-October 2024.
The screenshot comes from Statcounter.
It's a delight, and a little humbling, to see them all.
I can't imagine how long the list would be if I'd started it when I began the site - 18 years ago! Or how long the page would become if I updated it regularly.
Today, (10-05-24), there are 78!
The vast majority of these backlinks are inside in-house courses that have been put together exclusively for the school's enrolled students using an e-learning platform like moodle, blackboard, canvas, schoology or brightspace.
Although I can see the pages being linked to in my analytics, I am unable to see how they're being used because I don't have the necessary login credentials.
Here are two examples from the screenshot above:
I've arranged these in alphabetical order.* The page(s) linked to come after the school's name.
*mostly! I began ordering them like that. The first 27 follow that pattern, and then I posted them in the order I found them.
Some of the online learning resource sites linking to write-out-loud.com refer to multiple pages, in a few instances 10 or more. Rather than list all of them, I've shown the first 3 pages, and then specified the remaining number.
Where a page is linked to by more than one article on a particular site, I've given the keyword phrase in its url and appended the number of times it's been referenced. E.g. public-speaking-exercises x 4.