D a m i á n R o b l e s
Following the philosophy and practice from the transformative movement of "open source", I have created material freely available to other students of Spanish (L2, heritage, or native speakers) and educators to use.
These materials were created with the aim to be pedagogical: Each work was done by students of Spanish, from novice to advanced levels. I cannot be more proud of the outcome, since, for me, this experience was truly 'transformative'. I modeled some of the work here but the vast majority were creative products.
This corpus includes:
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Creative short stories
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Virtual maps and galleries
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A Digital Gallery of Quixotes [some images were courtesy of TAMU Cushing library archives from the Eduardo Urbina Cervantes collection and Cervantes Project, done by SPAN201—Honors' students]
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(Socio-)linguistic teaching by Aggies
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Digital magazines on the "Self"
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"Los Aggies te hablan" (Fall 2018)
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"Todo sobre nosotros" (Fall 2018)
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"Un día en la vida de..." (Spring 2018)
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"Estudiantes muy interesantes" (Fall 2017)
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Other projects
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"Sálvemos a nuestra tierra": Activismo ambiental (Summer 2019)
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I truly hope that other instructors can generate ideas by using these materials and be inspired by the power of education just as my students and I did. I strongly believe collaborative and independent works in the form of open-source material can change our lives. In this fashion, we [instructors and students] can demonstrate that teaching practices can come in many layers, whether that be in coordination with or by merging two distinct worlds: the classics and the digital 21-century avant-gardes.
Have fun! :)
Damián
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