STOR The Spanish Teaching Online Resource

Welcome to STOR. The aim of this project is to organize and share materials among the language instructors in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Columbia University. For years now, we have all created our own, original activities to help fill gaps in textbooks and provide extra practice and cultural context in our language classes. We hope that our effort to bring together and preserve electronically these activities will make teaching Spanish easier for instructors and learning more enjoyable for students at Columbia as well as elsewhere. Evelina Guzauskyte and Ann Warner Columbia University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The STOR website is updated and maintained by the current Technology and New Media Fellow of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Columbia University. This position is available through a grant provided by the Teaching Center of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Previous Technology and New Media Fellows have been: Ann Warner (Fall, 2004), Emily Beck (Spring, 2005), Teresa Ko (Fall, 2005).

Acknowledgements

This initiative would not have been possible without the support of several institutions and individuals: First of all, we’d like to thank The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, who provided us with a generous grant for the project. The Columbia University Language Resource Center is hosting our site and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, CCNMTL, kindly allowed us to use their equipment. We would also like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the Teaching Center of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the Technology and New Media Fellowship, a grant through which we are able to maintain and to continue to expand STOR. For their approval and help with the project, we are grateful to the Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dr. Patricia E. Grieve, as well as to Dr. Stephane Charitos and Piero di Porzio at the Language Resource Center. Our most heartfelt thanks go to the Director of the Language Program at Columbia, Dr. Angelina Craig, for her support of the project through every stage, from brainstorming to the final version. For their attentive editing and proofreading final drafts of the activities, we would like to express our appreciation to the members of the Language Committee of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Columbia University: Dr. Helene de Aguilar, Dr. Angelina Craig, María Dolores Morillo, Carimer Ortiz Cuevas, Raul Rosales and Dr. Perla Rozencvaig.

We would like to acknowledge Liliana Pinto at the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning who offered valuable suggestions at the beginning of the project as well as Romeo Girón for technical advice. Many thanks as well to Chris Ault who designed the web template. Finally, the following instructors of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Columbia University have contributed activities to the website. We would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to each of them: