This is a great product. I've been looking for something like this.
Re price. I'm a retired teacher who is trying to continue to give to our students in our schools. I would love to know that I can afford this when it comes out, because I have been designing and developing digital resources in social studies that I give away to schools. So, when you say educators, please consider some of retired educators who still feel an obligation to help our students and schools as a public service during our retirement.
Continue thinking along these lines. In education within the next five (5) years, the curriculum will be based on teacher mashups of web-based materials and teacher created materials. This is a great first step down this pathway. I look forward to a version of Rome where I can quickly mix web materials with a wide varies of interactions and can assign my students to making Rome projects based on what I have created to guide and facilitate their exploration of important educational projects.
Finally, please think of ways you can have any text in the final projects created in Rome easily converted via text-to-speech into quality audio. Our blind students and many of our special needs students are greatly helped by having text which highlights the word as it is spoken. It helps the read the passage, it helps them improve their reading (by being read to), and it greatly increases their comprehension and retention of that comprehension. It also helps make products 508 compliant.
Keep it up. You're blaxing a pathway into the digital curriculum's future.
