I found a few things I had not seen before that could be useful at my school. We just became a bilingual campus last year and I liked the SpanishPod offers of free lessons. There are many people who would like to know more of the language, and this seemed appealingly simple.
Minti also looked like it could be appreciated by the folks that visit our Parent Center every week. They could get started with it at school, and then continue with the benefits at home.
The award winner that really launched my imagination was Lulu, where you can self publish. They have applications geared towards fundraisers and I thought our PTO or my (eventual) Friends of the Library could create a calendar of photographs with students involved in learning activities. Of course, the more students in the photos, the more calendars will sell, and who will pass up that opportunity to buy for themselves, and all the relatives? You can make the calendars be Jan-Dec or school year if you prefer, so there are lots of ways to work it, plus you can actually print it with all the school events on the dates! Lulu calculates cost, so you can add a mark up to make $$$, but you don't have to worry about inventory because they print based on the orders. Maybe it's all too good to be true, but it was the award winner, so it must have been successful for a lot of other people, right? Agrab.
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Hello!
This is Leonardo from SpanishPod. I received a notification from Google alerts that you have written something about us.
We are interested on what you said about your college becoming bilingual. I wonder this is in the USA and it's very interesting for us in a way that we might be able to make a deal to give full access to SpanishPod.com to all the students of this campus if we get to an agreement with the high direction. So if you can tell us the name of your school and where are you located so we can contact them and try to sort something up.
Thanks a lot for writing about us and we are very glad that you appreciate what we do.
Oh dear. Yes, we are in the USA, but not a college, just an elementary school. I was referring to the needs of our monolingual staff that are interested in improving communication skills. It isn't a large group, but I do plan on showing them your website when the school year begins. Thank you for your interest!
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