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CELEBRATING SCL THAILAND’S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Promoting Student Centered Learning

CELEBRATING SCL THAILAND’S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

of Promoting Student Centered Learning

The web site Student Center Learning Thailand was founded in July 2011, and this month marks its anniversary date. From google statistics we discovered that 12,189 visitors have come to visit www.SCLThailand.org over the course of the year. Approximately 60% of those visitors came from Thailand. The rest of visitors came from 134 countries, with the largest percentage of visitors outside of Thailand coming from the United States, Australia, India and the U.K.

We are particularly proud of the fact that in the last  six months  our Thai readership reading in Thai has risen considerably . Only 10% of our readership was reading our web site in Thai the first six months of our founding. We are happy to report that the per cent of Thai readers reading our web site in Thai has risen to 17%. That fact  leads us to mentioning our thanks. Our translator, Miss Neung, certainly gets the credit for raising our Thai readership reading in Thai. Her time and effort translating articles written in English into Thai are very much appreciated not only by the web management but by our Thai readers. And thanks also  to one of the three co-founders, Greg Cairnduff for his indefatigable efforts as deputy editor. Greg has kept the whole operation alive during my duty in Pakistan as the educational adviser for the International Rescue Committee.  And special thanks too to Bryan Fost who is also a member of our threesome founding group. Bryan actually designed the web site and has been the web master overlooking the site. And a thank you  to Kevin Wales who has taken over the web mastering as Bryan has taken on responsibilities in Laos with an organization known as Power.  A final thanks to contributors who wish to remain anonymous for their generosity in covering the salary of the Thai translations and internet costs.

It has been a very good first year. Thank you to all of you for your support. We most certainly appreciate the support of those who have submitted articles too. And, of course, we thank our readership. We hope to continue to appeal to our current readership and hope to expand our readership  in an effort to promote student centered learning.

Sincerely,

Peter  J. Foley

Managing director and editor-in-chief. 

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