Six years and 4000 activities!

The site has reached two new milestones this spring, so I thought I'd collect them into one post. First off, there are over 4000 activities on the site now. (over 4300 as I write this)

That number is pretty mind-boggling to me. As best as I could estimate, Englipedia had something in the range of about 1200 activities, and it was by far the biggest site of its type when it was active.

They aren't all home runs, of course. Some of them might not be relevant to your circumstances at all, or don't fit with your teaching style or classes. But hopefully with this volume of activities, at least a few of them will work well for you and be a hit in the classroom. And if you've come across a great idea that you wanted to share with other teachers, I hope that this is a good platform to do just that!

The site will also turn six in late April, but that isn't quite as nice of a round number as 5 or 10. Still, it’s been an eventful six years!

Feature development and my ability to react to things has slowed down a lot over the last year, so I apologize for that. I have a toddler at home now and switched jobs recently, but I probably could have made more time here and there.

One thing I hear a lot recently is that there’s a new group of Elementary School textbooks for this year. Previously I requested people to make videos of themselves flipping through the textbooks so I could add the listings myself, but I think that method isn’t going to be viable for this year and whenever the next round of Junior High textbooks come out.

I’ve started building a system where I can appoint a user (or users) to be the managers of a specific textbook for a period of time. Then they’d be able to edit the individual pages for the textbook and fix any errors. It will be a commitment from whoever volunteers to do this, but there are too many textbooks out there for any one person to be the sole maintainer of all of them.

I hope I can have this ready by the end of May or so, but it will depend on how much time I have to work on it. If you’re willing to be the maintainer for a specific textbook, I’ll make a post when it’s ready to explain how to apply.

Thanks again for all your help and support, and be back soon!