Last night’s final hymn class ended with a bit of revolutionary fervor on the part of the participants. They are ready to bring the hymnal back into use in the church. My work with them has opened their eyes to the value of using the hymnal over the Power Point, and they are going to start a movement. One of them is also thinking of joining the choir. Another asked me to repeat the hymn class once the new hymnals come out.
I feel as though I succeeded there.
We are also singing “‘Tis the Time of Yuletide Glee” in choir. I love that song. I bullied the choir into singing it last year over the most strident objections. I was thinking of getting up a sextet for it this year. I am thrilled that the director is actually having us sing it.
And I woke up this morning with the rudiments of a new SEO plan. I’ve been on maintenance with the Dark Art for so long that I had forgotten how thrilling it can be as a hunt, quest, or highly sophisticated computer game.
Fortunately, I have decided to use my power for good and not for evil.
Will you do me a favor and take a little survey I have devised?
1. When shopping online, you
a. go to a favorite online store, chosen for much the same reasons you use to choose stores in the physical world.
b. search for the exact item you want to buy and comparison shop for the best deal among the front-page results.
c. mostly shop impulsively when you find something irresistible in your online travels.
2. When you are happy with an online experience, you
a. make that store the default option for that kind of shopping.
b. might bookmark it, but it doesn’t affect your subsequent shopping behavior.
c. don’t slam the store in your blog. A happy shopping experience is the least we should expect, and doesn’t deserve special notice. An unhappy shopping experience deserves vengeance.
I will be very grateful for your responses. If you happen to be a teacher, I would be especially grateful if you would check out this store and give me your honest feedback. Non-teachers, too, for that matter, if you have a little time this morning.
Last night’s study group had a interesting conversation about, more or less, favors. I mostly saw it as a discussion about favors because Ozarque has been having a conversation on the subject over at her place. It goes back a long way, most of it is in the comment section, and there is a lot of other stuff on the page to scan through, but it’s quite interesting. I’ll get back to that topic tomorrow, when perhaps some of you will have read and thought about it as well. And Southern names, too, since you asked.
Today, however, I have a really long list, so I had better get cracking. Which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if you think about it, which I do not have time to do.
I have favorite online stores and I do stick with a place that delivers good, prompt, accurate service. Convenience is the major factor for me, because I hate RL shopping and don’t like to make time for it. I don’t know the hymnal story, but I’m glad you won them over.
For me, the answers are 1-a and 2-a … but it’s not an exact fit. I almost never shop online, because the process is usually so complicated that I can’t stand it. [Especially when you go through the forty-seven pages of required steps, and then you get an error message and would have to start all over again.] The one exception is amazon.com, where I can just do one-click and am immediately thanked for that, followed by a confirming e-mail immediately, and that’s the end of it.
I do just about all my shopping (not food or household goods) on line. I abhor going into “the mall” or retail establishments if I can at all help it. I tend to shop on line at stores I would normally have shopped at in person.
I like your on line store – it’s easy to navigate, and clean to look at. The prices seem pretty reasonable to me, compared to what I usually pay for some of the supplemental things I buy for education.
ryc: you crack me up
(pay no attention to the man behind the curtain) – I know your secret it’s safe with me! LOL
Did you mention the brain benefits of using hymnals – learning to read music is like learning another language and keeps your brain nimble. It’s also closely aligned with math in the brain, so yet another benefit I’m sure.
1. B; 2. B, again.
I don’t actually shop online so can’t provide any help, sorry.
1-b
2-a and sometimes b
The Education State website is clean and easy to use. I especially like the search feature. Perhaps you could allow some sorting by grade level when applicable. All in all, very nice.
1b and for 2, I would bookmark it, check it in the future, and if it had what I wanted at a good price, buy, but if not, search. If I was blogging about it, I would mention good service and selection and reccommend.
I usually do reviews of stuff I buy through Amazon, too, especially if I have different info to add. For instance, after I got my hearing aids, I had trouble using cell phones. I bought a bluetooth headset and wrote a review about how it interfaced with the aid, and also general info about sound that the audiologist had told me as it applied to headsets and how to choose them.
I looked at the main page on your site.
I love your logo, but the header was difficult to see. I could tell that there were navigation items across the top, but couldn’t read them. I have a PDA type cell phone, and it reduced the whole header to fit my screen which made it way too small. Vertical navigation bars usually display well, though.
It looks like you have a large selection of different types of things, but not being a teacher, a lot of it didn’t make sense to me, so I can’t comment on content.
Did this help?
I was away, so I will answer the survey now. Thanks for waiting for me. 1 is definitely “a”. If I change stores it’s based on a recommendation from a friend. 2. mostly “a”, but sometimes “b”. For me (and this may sound a little funky), I have a credit card attached to the store I frequent the most (amazon.com – I have an amazon.com credit card) – that’s one of the reasons why I frequent it. More points for what I purchase. And I get a gift certificate from them once per quarter (usually), based upon the spending I do. So, that’s my motivation. That, and free shipping.
1. a
2. a, but if I have other favorites for the same item, I’ll check them all. But I definitely add the new place to the list of “must check.”
Both A and B; if I have a favorite store for whatever it is, I’ll usually look there, and get it if it’s a good price. Otherwise, I’ll poke around.
For two, probably A as well.
The store was definitely interesting. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything that I’d probably end up using in my classroom, since I’m a high school Latin teacher who shares classrooms. I might buy something from there, though, if it comes up.