Tuesday, November 8: Discussion with Giovanni Zimotti
Virtual Worlds: From Arts to Professional Applications Without Leaving our Classrooms
3:00 pm Central, Center for Digital Humanities (1101 19th Ave. S., Room 108)
Giovanni Zimotti, Director of Spanish Language Instruction at the University of Iowa, will discuss his work developing and curating Virtual Reality environments to support language acquisition and transcultural contact.
On Monday, November 7, Professor Zimotti will lead a workshop entitled Spanish for the professions: create and adapt Open Educational Resource (OER) materials for inclusive classrooms that represent local cultures and communities. 3:00 pm Central, 003 Furman Hall.
Sponsored by the Center for Digital Humanities, The Center for Languages, and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.