 |
 Only YOU Support Hoagies' Page! Click Shop Hoagies' Page before you shop... |
|
||||
            |
||||||
| |||||||||||
|
Don't forget to do your Back-to-School shopping through Hoagies' Page affiliates! Visit Shop Hoagies' Page to click on our affiliate links before you shop. Thanks for your support! Simple solution: Click and drag
Shop Hoagies'
Page link to your browser toolbar... (IE users should "turn on"
your Links toolbar before you drag the link) Donations
|
Who Am I?Carolyn K., founder and director of Hoagies' Gifted Education PageWinner of the NAGC Community Service Award and the PAGE Neuber-Pregler Award The question is often asked... who are you? Why did you write Hoagies' Gifted Education Page? And the corollary question, Why is it called Hoagies? Below, Support Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, Kudos given to Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, and Print Hoagies' Page business cards to hand out, and engage Carolyn K. for a Speaking Appearance at your conference or meeting! But first, a little business...Hoagies' Gifted Education Page is a labor of love. Hoagies' Page has no
corporate sponsorship or government grants, no means of income except your individual
donations, and sales through our associates programs. By making your regular Internet purchases from any of our
associates programs by clicking on
Shop Hoagies' Page first, before you click on the
links to your favorite Internet stores and select your items, you support Hoagies' Page with a few cents from
the sale of each item you purchase, at no cost to you. Or you can donate
directly to Hoagies' Gifted Education Page through our PayPal Donate or Amazon
Honor System links. See the left column of any page for the links
to associates programs and donations. Visit
How Can You Support Hoagies' Gifted
Education Page? for more information.
The answers...
I am a software engineer by training and trade, with bachelors and masters degrees in software engineering. I didn't develop an interest in gifted education until a few years after the birth of our first child, when we noticed how different she was, and how the 'normal' path through education didn't seem to fit her. It took us several years to really understand, and we're figuring it out all over again with our second child... As we started to 'figure it out' I was asked to create a course on writing web pages, and later, one on web page design. For a sample project, I organized my then burgeoning bookmarks file into a neat, annotated list where I could easily find my favorite gifted references. This became Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, first made public in March of 1997, with only a single web page and about three scrolls full of links. Hoagies' Page has grown since then. In 1999 Hoagies' Kids and Teens split off to become a page in its own right, with links to books, sites, movies, software, reading lists, contests, and more, for gifted children and teens. Hoagies' Gifted Education Page continues to grow, to its current size of over 400 pages of information on every aspect of raising and educating gifted children that you can think of, plus 20+ years and over 500 additional pages of ERIC Clearinghouse for Disabilities and Gifted Education (ERICEC)! Hoagies' Page does not accept paid advertising, nor sell visitors to spyware companies (you'd be shocked how many respected websites, even gifted websites, do!). Hoagies' Page's only sources of income are the Amazon, MindWare and other associates programs, where Hoagies' receives a few cents commission each time you make a purchase from these companies after visiting from Hoagies' Gifted Education Page links, as well as your direct donations through PayPal Donate and Amazon Honor System. These few cents, in turn, pay for domain names, site hosting, link checking, and software needed to provide Hoagies' Gifted Education Page to you.
I was honored at the Gifted Development Center (GDC) 20th anniversary conference as the "Gifted Information Queen of the Internet" - you should see my crown! And more recently, I won the 2005 National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC) Community Service Award and the 2006 Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE) Neuber-Pregler Award for Outstanding Advocacy Efforts to Assure Quality Education for the Gifted. The Corollary Question: Why is it called Hoagies'?And to satisfy your curiosity... Why is the page called Hoagies'? Well, like any saga involving gifted children, it's a complicated story. First, the easy part. I named the page Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, because when I was first writing the page, my husband and I thought we were persona-non-gratis with the school district our daughter was in, mostly because she demanded to learn in school. We feared repercussions against her if the powers-that-be discovered the kinds of research and information I was advocating through Hoagies' Gifted Education Page. Not many people knew it by then, but back in high school, my husband was known as "Hoagie." By the middle of college, our friends had nicknamed me "Mrs. Hoagie." So it made sense to use an old nickname that none of our new acquaintances (and school teachers and administrators) knew. My husband insisted that there was little chance that anyone in that semi-rural district knew how to use PCs or search engines way back in 1997, and he was right, but I was still paranoid... Suffice it to say, we moved. That leads to the next question, Why was he called Hoagie? That's a little more convoluted. You see, back in high school, in marching band, he was involved with fund-raising hoagie sales (weren't we all?). He was also in the school's musical theater program, where his most recent adventure at the time was as Dr. Krogmeyer, one of the doctors who examined 'Lil Abner in Washington, D.C.. A few months later, a friend, Brian Robison, wrote a Christmas piece in his column in the local newspaper, The East Branch Citizen (now defunct), about a quiet elf named Hoagie Krogmeyer who took over the North Pole from the tyrannical rule of Santa. Now, you have to know my husband... and his classmates did. They immediately pegged him as the model for the story's main character... and he became "Hoagie." Recently, we had the honor of running into the author of the article / bestower of the nickname, Brian Robison, composer, at his new home as Assistant Professor of music at MIT. With the East Branch Citizen long gone, and Brian's blessing, I here reprint the article that started it all... A Different Slant. And that's who I am: Carolyn K., founder and director of Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, a.k.a. Mrs. Hoagie. Please also read But You Don't Look Sick's analogy, The Spoon Theory. (requires Adobe Reader) This explains a lot in my life. Print Hoagies' Gifted Education Page business cards
|
|
|
I am Carolyn K.,
founder and director of
resource is a book
