Homeschool Spanish Lessons - Online Learning

We’ve finally sorted out the problems with the singing animals and the animated storybooks  - I should have those changes uploaded today!

Getting closer to our full eLearning launch…so much to do, caramba! I’ve done some more work on my Paco the Penguin character, who will be one of the virtual teachers in the Children’s section, and uploaded the new eLearning Features Explorer. I decided to go with a visual explorer over a text based thing with icons, and we’ll see how people respond to it. If you’re waiting ever so patiently for the INTERMEDIATE lessons, they are coming – no te preocupes :) I’ve had so many things to finish up, and hopefully now that I have all the basic marketing things created I can go back to finishing up the content, with the goal of having 1 semester or 18 weeks of stuff for each level by the end of the month. My kids love Paco, can’t get enough of him – so let me know what you think of him. Also the free trial is still under programming…hope to finish up this week!

After struggling with Powerpoint and Captivate for a while, I got my slideshow finished :)  It’s just 1 of a slew of things I’m trying to get ready, including a universal login so that people can do a free week trial from Facebook, AOL, Google, Yahoo, etc, and then of course I have to get way more of my actual content into the system – which is really just a several week preview of what’s to come at this point.  But progress feels good! Our Teacher Parent Admin is coming this week as well, it’s almost finished, and already up on our developmental server in testing mode.

I haven’t had time to return to the slideshow and getting any promotional stuff written about the new program, but for all the homeschoolers who have been patiently waiting for your welcome emails…hold tight – I’m sending them today!

We had some programming glitches before Xmas, small stuff but couldn’t go live till they were fixed. Programmer went on vacation and isn’t really back yet, but I solved the issues myself. I had to disable a couple of things like the “Recently Completed” list that allows parents and students to see the last lesson completed and click to go there – but we’ll add that back as soon as the programmer fixes whatever he did to break it :)

Down with a cold and trying to get my kids lunch but I’ll get those emails sent by this afternoon.

I’ve been working on a showcase of our learning activities to go alongside our slideshow. I think trying out some of our activities will give parents and students a much better grasp of the system and teaching methodology than simply viewing a slideshow about the program – although I’ll be adding the slideshow once I get the audio finished up.

Our lead programmer was out for the holidays, and unfortunately he didn’t fix the one glitch between our backend and frontend that prevented me from adding live students as I had hoped. I also decided that launching right before Christmas break was not the best idea marketing wise! As I have many  thousands of people who have submitted their email to the website asking for Spanish learning info, I figured that was a good way to send a lot of email direct to the bottom of inboxes under a pile of holiday backlog.