Online High

If you haven’t had a chance to go look, the Best Online High Schools Channel on Youtube.com now has over forty videos of online high schools. Instead of wandering all over that site, I am pulling them altogether in one central location. Enjoy!

The best place these days to ask a question is in the Forum. The number of Russian spam messages coming to the blog has become unmanageable, so we have needed to shut down responses for now.

Best Online High Schools is proud to offer up yet another brand-new website. Are you interested in online schools? Virtual School News provides you with information about new schools, new programs, and how the media reports on online schools.

Take a look.

As of today, the schools listed at Best Online High Schools have now had over 225,000 hits since April 2007. The vast majority of those have been in the last year. It appears that 2009 will be a banner year with even more visitors and even more schools!

Michael Barbour over at Virtual High School Meanderings has provided a better link for the new Facebook group. Here is the Best Online High Schools Facebook Group.

If you use Facebook, you should look for our brand new group, Best Online High Schools, and join us.

I am happy to answer questions here on the blog or in the forum. It is helpful, though, to:

a. Attach your question in the blog to a current post. Attaching it to an unrelated post from a year ago can be problematic;

or

b. Start a new thread in the forum and not attach your question to an old forum post (unless it is truly related to it).

I think that helps both readers and me.

I am sometimes asked why a school should advertise on the Best Online High Schools website. It’s a fair question and I thought I would give a reasonable answerable. Thanks to the many folks who read this website, we now get a significant amount of traffic.

Take, for example, our newest school, University of Miami Global Academy. It has just been listed on our site this past week. Do a Google search for: “University of Miami Global Academy.” You will discover that three of the first ten hits are related to this site. The BOHS site is the sixth and seventh ones and our blog feed that goes to Amazon.com is the tenth one.

After only one week, we hit the first page of Google for this school three times. Why is this important for readers to know? We claim to be the largest independent site for online high schools. This is how we back up that claim. It is absolutely about validity of the source.

Best Online High Schools beginning today will be posting one school listing from the book each week in the Articles section of the website. It is hoped that this information will help students make even wiser choices.

I readily admit that I am a statistics nerd. I use data to help make decisions. Recently, I have been given more data about Best Online High Schools. In particular, it now tells about visitors and their locations. For December, the first two countries listed are no surprise. The third one…?

Not surprisingly, the largest group comes from the United States. There are a number of reasons for this not the least of which is that is where I live and write. Also, the U.S. education system is increasingly open to distance learning.

The second group comes from Canada. Still not a surprise. The educational systems are similar and they are English-speaking. Also, quite open to distance learning.

In December, Dominica came in third. Dominica? It is an island located in the Caribbean and is most famous in the U.S. as a place that Christopher Columbus sighted in the Americas. Which is to say that it is not well-known here. Much of the island is a rainforest and from pictures I have seen, it is quite beautiful.

Things like this just make me curious because I have no idea why they might be visiting (but I am certainly grateful that they do so). Perhaps someone from Dominica might post a comment here and let us all know.