About Facts 4 Me

Facts4Me exists because one teacher, Sandra K. Morgan, annually searched the web for age-appropriate research sites for her third grade students in Hodgkins, Illinois. Every year Sandy found good informational sites for herself but little for her class. In the spring of 2006, after another unsuccessful hunt for primary level sites for an ocean unit project, Sandy and her business partner*, Theresa Fix, IHM (a former teacher), decided to do something about this. Facts4Me was born.

The goal was to create a child-friendly, child-safe site; a site with accurate and interesting information that would stimulate emergent readers in either a school or family setting; a site written on the second or third grade reading and comprehension levels that would appeal to primary, special ed and ESL students.

After sketching an initial map of the site, Sandy and Theresa hired Darrell Dwyer of Dwyer2Designs (www.dwyer2design.com) to design the look of the site and Joe Borsche of Borche Digital, LLC (www.borschedigital.com) to develop the functionality of the site.

Quite rapidly, Facts4Me got a life of its own as teachers from all over the U.S. got on board as writers. The enthusiasm and willingness of the writers only accelerated the energy around this new venture. Within a matter of a few weeks, nearly three dozen teachers were busy writing content pages on their chosen topics. Sandy and Theresa were busy refining their initial map of the site, choosing pictures and creating charts for the subject pages, and communicating with the writers. Soon, editing, making pictures web-ready and the uploading of pictures and content kept Sandy and Theresa completely occupied.

Sandy and Theresa are grateful to Pam Kobasic, IHM for grammar editing, Barb Dwyer of Dwyer2Designs for photo preparation and Clare Madden for backup research and data entry.

We are very pleased to recognize amazingly willing and capable writers, without whose assistance this undertaking would have taken years rather than months:

Sharon P. Carolin
Mary A. Carroll
Kara L. Coyle
Diana Doerr
Judy Duzinski
Barbara Dwyer
Francesca Gray
Sherie Green
Candice Kaiserman
D'Arcy Lavin
Joette Liamini
Quinn McDonald
M. McKinney
Sharon McNeil
Marilyn Meyerson
Beth Miller
Raydeen E. Naughton
Wilma A. Palmer, LCSW
Nina Peery
Jan Pierce
Joy Prempas
Robert Rose
Ann Rose
Susan Schuengel
Pam Seino
Jan Soleau, IHM
Diane Stritesky
Helen Walling, IHM
Some of our writers have chosen to remain anonymous.

Also present at every step of this venture is Emma Rose Goodpuppy. Among other things, she is the inspiration for Watson**, our Labramation. Emma's photos can be seen under the Dog topic, Labrador Retriever. She's the black one.

*In 1989 Sandy and Theresa co-founded Sandalstrap (www.sandalstrap.com), a business/ministry that offers inspirational gift items.

**Watson, part Labrador Retriever and part Dalmatian, received her name because our site is "elementary, my dear!"

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