Pre-launch development stage.

1,273 Gif Books. 6 reading levels. 15 themes.

17, 243 tagged educational gifs

Tinder style interactive mobile web app (demo)

http://book.giflingua.com

PRODUCT

The number of English language learners (ELLs) in the US is growing.

Teachers lack literacy tools to address poor achievement of ELLs in schools.

ELLs need digital tools that directly support classroom teaching and blended learning.

Extensive reading proven to accelerate ELL academic proficiency.

Students need messages and content they want to hear/view

Market Opportunity

The Problem

Current digital storytelling and reading libraries are one or more of the following:

-too expensive - dull, boring content-not ELL appropriate or leveled - no teacher tracking or accountability- no student generated or shared content-contain too much text, -not contextualized for ELLs-no content to download, use offline-no gaming aspect

The Solution

Gifs as language learning objects – the perfect ideograph for learning a language. Create an educational gif library containing leveled gifs that students want to hear.

1. READ Books

2. Write Books

Students:

TTS voices. Flashcards. XP points. Download for offline reading.

Search our gif library., Flickr CC or upload images. Add text. Publish. Make private or public.

User Generated Content As books are written, the individual gif library grows

and the Tinder style app’s gif content grows, stays current.

Why Gifs?

viral, public media that students want to consume/viewwidely available, remixable, sharablelow cognitive load as compared to videohighly contextualize the language pointlooped, repetitive (Mere Exposure effect)current and culturalload and play everywhereteach non-verbal communication (large part of language)short, clear messagesjust plain fun!

23 Million Gifs posted on Tumblr daily 5 Million Gifs shared on FB and Twitter daily 2 Million Gif integrations on Slack / month Giphy: $55 million series C funding.

TeamDavid Deubelbeiss, professor, teacher trainer, author and technology advocate for education. B.A. (Hons), B.Ed., M.Ed.

Proven track record as founding team member of successful Google Venture EnglishCentral. Director of Education. Project managed development and created international sales teams responsible for millions in B2B sales to schools & universities. Founder of EFL Classroom 2.0, large, social network for ELT teachers plus owner of the largest LinkedIn group for ELT – ELT Professionals.

Coded and built the Gif Lingua prototypes with some contracted developers and teachers helping create the content (books). Future Team:

1. Cofounder with prior experience building an online education company2. Backend and Front end developer3. Lead Designer4. Content editors x 2

Team Location: (preferred) Impact Hub, Antigua, Guatemala.

Revenue Models

Two possible revenue streams TBD:

1. B2B - Direct sales to teachers, schools, universities, boards to use web LMS and assign content. Can be self hosted by schools or used as SaaS

2. B2C - Students and parents purchase the app and games for learning English.

Development Timeline

1. Ongoing prototype teacher testing Sept. 01 –

2. Site redesign / code optimization Dec. 15, 2017

3. Develop a backend LMS Teacher Tools. Jan. 30, 2017

4. Beta test LMS. Feb. 01, 2017

5. Create native apps. March 01, 2017

6. Launch paid public version May 01, 2017

Thank You

david@giflingua.com