Instructional Technology
Teaching classroom foreign language necessitates creativity from the instructor. As an instructor of Spanish, one of my primary goals is to create and then maintain the students’ interest in the language and its’ culture. For today’s college student, the Internet is quickly becoming not only a tool of communication and exploration but also entertainment. Thus as their instructor, I feel that I have a responsibility to find and create meaningful technological resources that my students can use for fun and for learning.

Class Blogs:
Each of my courses has a class blog designed with Blogger.com. Students visit the blog nightly to view homework assignments and to access handouts on grammar explanations and activities that we will do in class. I create these handouts on Google Docs and then link them to the blog. The blog also contains information about upcoming cultural events and other opportunities for the students to use their Spanish in the community or abroad.
Click here or on the picture to see the blog for my advanced intermediate class at CU.

Annotated YouTube Videos:
I often create and then assign annotated YouTube videos to my students to watch and complete for homework. In the past, I have added content-based questions to music videos in Spanish such as this one seen here for Manu Chao's "Clandestino," interpretation questions to an explanation of Diego Velázquez's "Las meninas" and I am currently working on adding subtitles to an interview with the Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti.
Click here or on the picture to see the annotated YouTube video of "Clandestino."

WebQuest:
This is a WebQuest about Argentina's "Dirty War" that I created for my advanced intermediate Spanish class. In groups, the students performed a variety of tasks to prepare themselves for a mock trial that we held in class. The students reacted very well to the WebQuest saying that they creatively used Spanish to perform the tasks and that the process improved their confidence in their command of the Spanish language.
Click here or on the picture to see a demo of the WebQuest.
Click here to visit the WebQuest page.