The Mind Behind this Blog
My name is Terri Eichholz, and I am a teacher in North East Independent School District in San Antonio, TX. I have been teaching gifted students in grades K-5 for 13 years. Before that I taught 5th grade for 8 years. I have felt, for some time, that there is a real need for learning to become more “customized”, and that many teachers are eager to find tools for doing this. My hope is that you will find this to be a helpful resource, and that you will feel free to contribute your own ideas as well.
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- - February 13, 2012
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Terri, thank you so much for sharing this resource! I agree that teachers as well as parents can gain insight from the collected essays.
Very cool, brand new to wordpress, but I have a feeling I’ll be enjoying your content.
Welcome aboard!
Hi,
are you the same Terri from Samohi?
Hi Terri,
I work for an education technology start-up in London, and our team regularly visit your blog for thought-leadership. I found your post on KBears interesting (what a great Geography resource!), and thought you might be interested in Wordia – a fun online literacy learning resource.
Not sure if you’ve heard about us (Wordia.com), but I’d value any thoughts you have on what we’re trying to do (mapping the K-12 – all of the vocabulary that students need to learn… raising literacy and subject vocab levels, through video and games-based learning).
Originally, Wordia was built as a ‘living video dictionary’, but under the advisement of 100s of educators – we’ve pivoted to something that I’m really excited to be sharing with you!
The new-look Wordia has just launched – with some smart technology that lets educators build their own word games and hold school tournaments! We’d love you to have a look, and tell us what you think. Indeed – we’re running a t-shirt competition – and I’d love to send a school you know, some free Wordia t-shirts (a thank you – for helping us with the R&D efforts!).
It’s early days, but your feedback would be most welcome!
Thanks again.
Rob
Director of Play
(Research & Development)
love your site- would love to chat with you sometime ! I am a retired educator who has begun an eduational nonprofit after seeing the need to customize learning for some K-2nd grade primary school children before they get discouraged with school (at such a young age !!!) Jeannie in Georgia
Hi Terry,
I was surprised to see a bulletin board that I made in college on your blog! I am glad that you like it! I am eager to try some of the items on your website as well! Thanks for the support!
Wow, there are a lot of useful resources on your blog. Maybe your readers would be interested to learn about http://www.learnclick.com, a website for creating gap-filling exercises (so called cloze tests).
Philip