Have you used popular games (connect 4, snap etc) and adapted them to the language you teach?
I don't want to say what language I teach but I've created a game in that language on the theme we are teaching this term (e.g. Family and Friends) based upon a game that is already widely sold around the uk (think family board game). I've made simple resources (laminated myself), helpsheets, playing cards etc, all in this language, for pupils to play and extend their language skills. It was only ever going to be used in my department (there are 3 of us) and not really shared elsewhere.
My Head of Dept said casually that I should look into patenting it but neither of us know the ins and outs of that, so I more or less put that thought to one side.
Fast forward a few months, and we've had a student in to train for a term and somehow, my entire board game has made it's way into the hands of a company that produces resources. It's a local firm, so not national or anything, but they are contacting other schools with my idea. I'm so pissed off but I don't know if I have any right to be, given that my idea was taken from a popular family board game anyway.
Hope you're following - not sure I'm making much sense!
Can I have any thoughts on this please? I'd really appreciate it, even if it's a 'wind your neck in' type feedback.