I had some great teachers that I will always remember (what they taught me and their physical appearance). However I can't remember any of my teachers' names, whether it was elementary, junior high, or high school, or even university.
I just don't have a good memory of names. This site makes me regret it :-(
My son made a yearbook in class with all his classmates and their birthdays. I think it is to help them learn each others names and the months of the year.
hopefully we'll be able solve these types of problems in the future by having a name/school/email database that you can pull from. always room to grow.....
I think you definitely need to do this - left the site almost immediately because I couldn't quickly find a way to filter the content to be relevant to me. I love the concept though so having found from this thread that there is a search function, I'm heading back now!
Great idea, I recently (I'm in college now) went back and thanked several of my elementary school teachers who were really excellent. They don't get nearly enough thanks, but I know for damn sure I wouldn't be where I am today without them.
Very true, the feeling of "they don't get nearly enough thanks" is one of the reasons for the site. although sometimes we don't realize it right away, teachers can really change our lives.
Because I see bits of them in myself. An example: my sixth grade teacher math teacher frequently said that good mathematicians were lazy, that the simplest solution to a problem was often best, and that we didn't need to use overly complex techniques to solve problems. That's now at the core of my philosophy as a programmer.
Same here. Considering how much effort seems to have been put in on the design, I'm kind of disgusted that a flaw like this would go all the way into production.
Thanks for the kind words, we have been pulling this together over the last few weeks but breakdown by region will be very cool. It has been interesting to see where students are coming from: Kuwait, New Zealand, Brazil, etc.
Most schools have websites with faculty emails listed... it's very easy to look them up. I like the idea for this site - but would love to see a bigger mechanism for actually getting the messages to the teachers.
I went back to my high-school to borrow a lab coat for a Halloween party and while I was there I ran into a few old teachers and had a chance to thank them and have a good conversation with them. While a lot of kids 'hate' their teachers I seemed to be the near opposite.
Also, I recommend doing this for other things too, for example, I recently had an operation on my hand and the nurses and other staff at the hospital were awesome. I'm going back for a follow-up appointment and I'm going to bring a thank-you card and a couple of flowers to give to the ward.
Thanks for your support and glad you like our site! It's so awesome thinking back to all the great teachers we've had and taking a minute to say thank you. Hopefully we'll be able to connect you directly to them soon!
Great idea on the hospital staff thank you site too :)
Nice idea for a site. I thanked my high school Math teacher who was an amazing teacher and inspired me quite a bit. I just wish he could actually receive the thank you, I have no idea where he is now.
I was told to do this in a psych class I took freshman year in college.
I emailed my second grade teacher, who was probably the person that got me into reading. She was extremely grateful, and a decade later still remembered everyone in the class.
Awesome idea and a great way to get positive energy out there - especially since teachers are facing a lot of pressure these days....thanks for putting this together
I'm not associated, but it's just fixed line-height. Lines in the paper are every 18px, body line-height is 18px and title line-height is 36px (double). So they align.
I just don't have a good memory of names. This site makes me regret it :-(