Name: Cecilia Benenati

Institution: Lewis and Clark College

Language Area: Spanish

Project Type:

1- Summer Fellowship $3,000
2- Student Assistant Fellowship $2,500
3- Travel Fellowship $1,125 (+/-)
4- Course Release/Semester Fellowship $3,000

$9,625 total

Project Titles: (For Summer Fellowship, Student Assistant Fellowship and Course Release)

• Second-year Multimedia Lessons
• Finish Multimedia Lessons for Spanish 102-201 sequence.
• Visiting Latin American Countries (Web pages and multimedia lessons)

Duration: Summer and Fall 2000.

Brief Description of Projects:

• Second-year Multimedia Lessons: Since the Spanish Departement has adopted a new Second Year textbook, Conexiones, I have to convert the existing lessons used for the other book, and develop new ones to fit the new content. These lessons have already been used for two years now, proving to be of great aid to the language professors and the students in enhancing and facilitating the teaching and understanding of readings related to specific themes. Parts of these lessons have also been used by instructors of other level courses, thus expanding the use of one lesson to different classes.
  
• Finish Multimedia Lessons for Spanish 102-201 sequence: I will finish developing lessons related to material used in this course following the chapters from the book Puentes. This is a special course with very specific grammar and curricular needs. It was developed with the objective of giving students with some knowledge of the language a chance to finish their language requirement in one year, covering material from the second part of first year in the first semester and the first part of second year in the second semester. These lessons, as the ones for the book Conexiones, 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 Puentes.
  
• Visiting Latin American Countries: I will finish designing lessons and Web Pages on the countries where Lewis & Clark has 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.

Brief Time Line:

• Second-year Multimedia Lessons

# Summer 2000:

Research and information gathering.
Adapt and develop lessons for the new Second Year Textbook.
Prepare assessment of the use of multimedia material with the help of Psychology and Continuing Education faculty.

# Fall 2000:

Assess the use of multimedia material in the teaching of Foreign Languages.

• Multimedia Lessons for Spanish 102-201 sequence.

# Fall 2000:

I will finish developing lessons related to material used in this course following the chapters from the book Puentes.
Select an abridged version of a book for suplemental reading and prepare lessons to be used during Fall Semester 2000.

• Visiting Latin American Countries

# Summer 2000:

Research and gather information for the creation of the Web Pages.
Start the creation of Web Pages.
Create links to relevant sites.

Student Assistant Fellowship : This student will be of crucial importance in the development of the material during the summer and later improvement and maintenance of the Web Pages and lessons. She is very responsible and interested in learning how to use computers and specific programs for the preparation of material for the teaching of languages. The fact that she is a sophomore with an interest in majoring in Hispanic Studies, is very important, since she will be at the college for two more years to help us with the projects and she will be fluent in Spanish. During the summer she will be able to help other Spanish instructors developing material.

Travel Fellowship: The money requested for traveling will be used to go to CALICO 2000: "Core Technologies: Impact on the Future", May 30-June 3, 2000. (Some of the following are estimates)

Registration $ 200
Airfare 400
Hotel 400
Meals 125
Total $ 1,125