Homeschool Spanish Lessons - Online Learning

I’ve discovered some pretty cool technology lately, mainly how to create SWFs from .bat files using the Flex mxmlc compiler. I have a slew of great .bat files that also create XML from glossary word lists that I make for lesson units, so this has been awesome for creating Spanish words with embedded audio. I haven’t gotten to the really cool stuff yet like doing verb conjugation animations, adding images, including flipcard translations, etc, but none of that would be too hard. I do already have flashcard application, but having swfs that I could embed in other apps with a flip-able translation, audio toggle button, etc would be very cool. The most important thing is that I’m able to create this stuff rapidly and with few errors, since the computer is doing it all based on my Spanish – English wordlist.  One thing I did this weekend was to create a new numbers audio tool, since numbers can be a very tricky thing for people to really learn to manipulate well. You can know the patterns for numbers, have spent time practicing them, etc – but when you are faced with something like a ticket counter in a foreign country where they are throwing big numbers at you in rapid sequence, even the best studied person can freeze up a bit!

I’ve only just started on this tool, and did up until 1000 with audio as well as flashcards, and this tool doesn’t have any teaching lessons yet, although I do plan to add those. As this is just a tiny part of my e-learning system I’ll probably bundle this as an Air app or something and release it for free, so I’ll go ahead and link the app in progress here –just click on the image to the left.  ¡Qué lo disfruten – all suggestions welcome!