The authors of Panorama (of which I am one) and Rodnaya Rech’ are delighted to inform you that the online companion website (what we used to call the electronic workbook) for our respective textbooks will soon be online (Rodnaya Rech) better than before (Panorama) for the fall 2021 semester! (Panorama’s online companion website is already up, Rodnaya Rech’s website will be up by August 1.)
Panorama is an intermediate-level textbook for learners of Russian as a foreign language, while Rodnaya Rech’ is a textbook for heritage learners.
You can learn more about each book at these links:
For Panorama: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/panorama-website-pb-lingco
For Rodnaya Rech’: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/rodnaya-rech-website-pb-lingco
The online websites provide lots of exercises that are self-correcting AND you can link them to your class so that your students homework grades are accessible to you by a click of a link. And yes, the online website does work with Blackboard, Canvas, and other Learning Management Systems.
The new websites have a new functionality that allows instructors to create their own activities, such as additional exercises or quizzes and integrate them directly into your course management system, including fill-in-the-blank, dictation, and open-ended question activities, among others.
Georgetown Press is selling the book with the code for the online companion website and is phasing out sales of the books without the codes: It’s a bundled package now for each textbook with the online companion website.
You can request access to the companion websites for either or both textbooks through this link: https.//form.typeform.com/toDKiDcp80.
Panorama’s website is fully available for examination for adoption and the website for Rodnaya Rech’ has a sample chapter for review with full access available by August 1.
The online companion websites will replace the printed workbooks and workbook keys, which will no longer be available.
For those of you who have been using Panorama during the past year, without the online website and those of you using Rodnaya Rech’ with a limited capacity website and an e-book version of the exercises : thank you for your patience! We promise you that you will love the new online websites more than the one we had before the Pandemic.
For those of you who have yet to explore Panorama or Rodnaya Rech’, this is a great time to do so. These are terrific books (AATSEEL Pedagogy Category Book Award Winners, both of them!) and will be a great addition to your curriculum.
For questions about Panorama, please feel free to contact any of the Panorama co-authors:
Ben Rifkin: benjamin.rifkin@hofstra.edu
Evgeny Dengub: edengub@gmail.com
Susanna Nazarova: snazarov2@gmail.com
For questions about Rodnaya Rech’, please feel free to contact the RR co-authors:
Irina Dubinina: idubinin@brandeis.edu
Olesya Kisselev: olesyakisselev@utsa.edu
And for either book, please feel free to reach out to our publisher, Georgetown University Press, which has with great dedication invested its resources in creating numerous new textbooks for the Russian field, including also the Art of Teaching Russian, Mastering Russian through Global Debate, and Faces of Contemporary Russia (with another exciting title on the way soon). Your contact at Georgetown University Press is gupress@georgetown.edu.