Finally, let me give you a peek at one of my current projects, Bloom Finally, let me give you a peek at one of my current projects, Bloom. Bloom comes out of a need, here and around the world, to get native speakers making a lot more books. But if we want to get lots of people doing this durably, we need something much more focused on the task, much less “flexible” than Publisher, Draw, etc. bloom.palaso.org

Bloom At the top, we have the 2 books which I’ve already made. Then below that are a set of templates based on page size and orientation. Below that are shell books that we can choose to add to our library for this language. Here the user is about to click on the button labelled “Make a book using this template”. And we get…

Next Steps Major Decisions Templates Lots of simple ones One complex (primer) template Built-in Image license tracking Beta testing Major Decisions Who will help with html templates? How will this get to Balsa? Who will support the users?