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Goethezitat: "Staub soll er fressen, und das mit Lust." This past summer: dividing the "blockbuster" package into smaller, specialized activities that can be distributed either through a publisher (packaged or downloads) or from my own website (downloads, maybe or maybe not packaged). Learning a lot about on-line selling. In the meantime, older versions will be offered as no-cost downloads. Specialized activities (on the conference disk): Cosmo Telefon - easily expanded to other languages Cosmo Briefsteller - will probably remain German-only Cosmo Cabaret - already exists for Spanish, with sample models for French and Korean. Medium-difficult to expand too other languages. -------------------------------- Comprehensive first-year German package "Wie, bitte?". Target price between $19.95 and $39.95), to compete not ony with $150 ink-on-paper textbooks, but also with Rosetta Stone and Auf geht's, both much more expensive. Spanish version already exists; have applied for grants to support Albanian and Swahili. Features to note: • Non-linear organization of chapter features (but with a certain "tilt" in the sequence of items on the "resource" buttons. • Structures (=grammar) accompanied by audio illustrations • Flexible reveal of dialog content • Students can record themselves in a dialog role and "enter" the dialog along with the pre-recorded speakers. • "Word Search" feature ------------------------------ Well along but not on the disk: Cosmo Grammatica - a "kinder, gentler" grammar resource, but with pangs of conscience. Students have a love-hate-insecurity feeling about grammar, and language teachers can always offer more grammar and find something more to criticize. But… [extra Goethezitat:] "Nach Golde drängt, Am Golde hängt, Doch alles. Ach, wir Armen!" |