+vitals
name: maría lourdes espinoza elenes de panbehchi
nickname: lulú
e-mail: tascari at gmail or panbehchiml at vcu
web presence:
elenes.com - my home since november 1998
+education
¶ media, art, & text [matx]- doctoral student—2008- present @ virginia commonwealth university [vcu], richmond, va »focus on online learning, foreign languages and the internet, works as a pagebuilder for blackbird, the online journal
¶ m.a. in spanish—1993-1995 @ new mexico state university [nmsu], las cruces, nm »focus on latin american literature & hispanic literature in the united states «studied while working as teacher assistant
¶b.a. in spanish literature—1987-1991 @ universidad autónoma de chihuahua (university of chihuahua) [uach], chihuahua, mexico »graduated with honors «worked as a research assistant while studying –edited video documentaries, wrote and directed radio dramas, and videorecorded interviews «wrote a thesis, which received an honorable mention
+ academic experience
—spanish adjunct instructor
§ 1995-present have worked for over 9 years at a community college [j. sargeant reynolds] and three universities [new mexico state university, virginia union university, and virginia commonwealth university]
§ have created and used online interactive materials for students in the first two years of spanish at vcu
§ at vcu, have taught elementary, intermediate and advanced spanish as well as spanish 495-the portfolio class for spanish majors –in this class, students have to create a language portfolio based on the global language portfolio, which has been developed mostly at vcu by dr. patricia cummins
§ lead the vcu studies abroad program in guatemala during the summer of 2004
—coordinator, first and second year spanish at vcu § august 2007-september 2008
—spanish instructor - collateral at vcu § august 2004-may 2005 - taught intermediate and advanced spanish, and advised spanish majors
—teacher assistant at new mexico state university
+publications
—book review-las metáforas de internet - june 2009 § for the resource center for cyberculture studies[rccs] accessed on 15 june 2009, http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=598&BookID=422
—site review - audiria - december 2008 § for merlot.org -multimedia education resource for learning and online teaching accessed on 20 march 2009, http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewCompositeReview.htm?id=362102
note: you need to be a member of merlot.org in order to see this text
+links
elenes.com - my home online since november 1998
matx - the phd program i'm traying to finish soon
blackbird - I work there building web pages