Small Projects and Jobs

While the items listed below aren't necessarily large enough to warrant individual pages, I believe these additional samples add more dimension to my professional portfolio.

This category has been divided into two halves: interpreting work contexts and small instructional projects.

Notable Interpreting Contexts

Political Briefing and Workshop for Tindig Pilipinas Coalition - Jan. 2021
- facilitated by the International Republican Institute (NGO based in Washington D.C.)
- provided interpretation via Zoom for a workshop on avoiding digital surveillance as political activists working toward democracy within oppressive regimes
- Cuban Spanish presenter<>Filipino speakers of English attendees
Locating Palestine in the Arab Americas conference - 13-15 Sep. 2024
- facilitated by the Khayrallah Center at North Carolina State University (detailed conference information)
- trained conference organizers in the use of Zoom and personal technology devices as a replacement for traditional simultaneous interpretation headsets
- provided in-person simultaneous and consecutive interpretation for a two day conference with international attendees focused on the Arab and Palestinian diasporas in North and South America
- Argentine, Chilean, Mexican and Colombian Spanish<>British, Canadian and American English

Small Technology Projects and Samples

Scratch Game - Aventura Día de los Muertos

The game is playable right here in this window! Click the green flag to try it out.

If you would like to see my instructions, cultural notes, and source credits as presented with the game on its native website, click the link at the top of this segment.

This small project comes from a course taught by Dr. Kevin Oliver at NC State University on the topic of teaching culture via instructional technology.

Scratch Game allows students to explore rudimentary elements of coding and game desing to create simple ditigal games. Users can work from an existing template, or start from scratch to create something totally new.

Potential instructional applications of this tool:

accomplish "connections to other disciplines" standards for World Language Instruction as outlined by ACTFL, including computer science, science, logic and reasoning, 21st century skills
demonstrating acquired target culture knowledge via culturally relevant games (as in my example)
application of target language presentational writing skills to give instructions (command verb forms), create story lines (narration in the past) or describe included elements (present tense descriptions of tangible culture).

screenshot of map showing locations of various pins in the collection

History Pin Sample

History Pin - The Diverse Religious Influences of Sevilla, Spain

This small project comes from a course taught by Dr. Kevin Oliver at NC State University on the topic of teaching culture via instructional technology.

I worked collaboratively with other students in the course to create a guided digital tour of Seville, Spain focused on the city's rich history of religious diversity. The author of each pin description in noted within the tour, as well as sources for the original or licensed images it contains.

Potential instructional applications of this tool:

exploring architecture and urban layout in target cultures
investingating local or international history from others' perspectives
student-designed guided tours on numerous topics, potentially written in the target language
pre-orientation to a location prior to travel

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse