Fall 1997 Proposal

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Name: Cecilia Benenati
Institution: Lewis & Clark College
Language Area: Spanish

Project Type: Course Release

Project Titles: - Second-year Multimedia Lessons

- Visiting Latin American Countries (Web pages and multimedia lessons)

- Personal Web Page

Duration:

Two semesters (1997-98) with probable extension for
similar projects to following year (1998-99)

Brief Description of Projects

- Second-year Multimedia Lessons: I will develop lessons related to material used in Intermediate Spanish following the chapters from the book Fuentes. Content and design will be decided on in consultation with other 200 level instructors according to the perceived need for grammar and curricular material.

These lessons will be developed in such a way that they can be used following the textbook organization, or individually. This format will allow professors from other level courses to use them too, even if they are not teaching with the second year book. One central lesson will be linked to others and to Web site links where students can find
information related to the content.

- Visiting Latin American Countries: I will design lessons and Web pages on different countries; especially the ones that our faculty visit with our overseas programs. Having professors and instructors from six different Latin American countries in the Department will make it easier to get original and interesting material to create different units describing distinctive aspects of geography, history, culture and politics, reflected in pictures, video, music, interviews with locals, newspaper and magazine articles, etc.

This material can be used not only by Spanish instructors, but also by students who are interested in traveling abroad, the Overseas Programs Office, Sociology, Anthropology and History courses, etc.

- Personal Web Page: I am going to create my own Web Page in which I intend to include course curricula, grammar handouts, exercises, assignments, links to other pages, such as, newspapers, magazines, Universities in Latin American countries, etc. I will also use it as a forum for discussions assigned in the lessons.

Brief Time Line:

Fall 97:
- Research and information-gathering
- Develop some of the lessons from the second year book readings

Spring 98
- Develop the rest of the lessons from the second year book readings
- Start with my personal web page

Summer 98
- Finish the Fall and Spring projects
- Create the countries web pages