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A faculty member here is trying to locate materials to support a Spanish for Native Speakers course. Suggestions welcome!
Call up Carl Blyth at COERLL (www.coerll.utexas.edu ). He heads the center for open educational resources and language learning. He has a few contacts with instructors at the University of Oregon, who are doing great things with OERs in heritage Spanish, aka native speaker Spanish.
Does anyone know of, or use an OER Spanish Textbook? We have a languages department that is very interested in offering OER materials to students.
Any help is much appreciated.
We aren’t using any at PCC, yet .. But you might want to check out the following resources (not really textbooks --- but maybe workable?)
http://acceso.ku.edu/
http://grammar.spanishintexas.org/
It isn't a textbook but one of our Spanish instructors recently started using
Mi Vida Loca for Spanish 101 & 102. Its video course through the BBC. It isn't open but it is free. He is very excited about the transformation in his teaching he's experienced using it. I'll be happy to share his contact information if your department is interested.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/syllabus.shtml
There have been a few email strands asking about Spanish texts. I was doing a search for an instructor and found the ones below. Most have been brought up in the past, but I think the first 2 may be new to the list.
https://psu.pb.unizin.org/spanish001fa16/
http://www.appstate.edu/~fountainca/1050/
http://acceso.ku.edu/
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spanish
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Spanish_1
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/spanish/spanish-perspectivas-portenas/content-section-0
http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/spanish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/
http://grammar.spanishintexas.org/
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/
I have a meeting next week with our Spanish faculty member who wants to converts their Spanish 1 - 3 courses over to OER. Does anyone have any good resources? I believe she will be willing to mix and max and possibility contribute some of her own material.
I have been involved with this effort for some time now. There are several good sources that your faculty will be able to incorporate in some ways (listed below), but there is no one source that provides the full 5-skill/communicative approach that can be adapted freely. She likely will be creating and contributing a great deal of her own material.
Here are some good resources that contribute in different ways:
COERLL project at the University of Texas (different aspects include videos, proficiency exercises, grammar explanations, etc.)
Acceso/Kansas University – intermediate level
OLI/Carnegie Mellon – this is the gold standard, but it is NC-ND…..if your institution is willing to pay their fee per student (reduced for CC), it may be a way to get started while building her own courses
Project Gutenberg – readings
This was the OER developed by our Spanish instructor for the ATD OER Degree Pathway grant: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-baycollege-spanish1/
Hi Cindy, the following OER are in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=span
Jeff Ruth from East Stroudsburg University is working on a Spanish language open textbook. I've copied him on this email so he could speak more to his project, and whether your faculty would be able to join forces.
I'd also point to this textbook by Ana I. Serrano Martínez from Penn State: https://psu.pb.unizin.org/spanish001fa16/
People mostly covered this below (thank you!) but these are the Spanish resources from COERLL: http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/spanish . As people mentioned there may not be a full curriculum but there are a lot of supplements out there.
Our grant is ending in August and we are currently writing the proposal for our next grant. In that proposal, we are including a project for creating a beginning Spanish curriculum with a team at Texas A&M.
Also on our Language OER Network there are several teachers listed who have created Spanish materials, you can browse the descriptions here: https://community.coerll.utexas.edu/ .
We’d also be happy to talk to your faculty member if she wants to bounce ideas around.
Here at Pima Community College in Tucson, we have some dedicated Spanish faculty developing OER Spanish 101 and 102 courses. One of the challenges they are running into is finding OER graphics to supplement their materials. They know how to use Flickr for a CC photo search for aesthetic touches, but they are looking for things like images/charts/graphics for learning numbers, days of the week, and so on. Can anyone direct us to these types of resources?
Below are some good sources for images:
CC has a nice search engine that allows you to look through multiple sites: https://search.creativecommons.org/
This site has a good list of various places to search for images, audio, etc:
https://open4us.org/find-oer/
I have compiled a list of my personal favorite image sites:
https://roola.weebly.com/images-to-download.html
I am looking for leads on an OER text for Anatomy and Physiology in Spanish and/or Swahili. So far I have found a few Spanish language resources via Merlot. Any additional ideas would be appreciated.
Four ideas for resources in Spanish, beyond Merlot:
1. Interactive books from Spain’s Dept. of Education: http://recursostic.educacion.es/secundaria/edad/
2. Gateway site for Spanish-language OERs, including from Spain and Latin America, all disciplines and educational levels: https://emtic.educarex.es/229-nuevo-emt/recursos-para-el-aula/2422-22-bancos-de-recursos-educativos-digitales-que-conviene-tener-a-mano
3. Temoa is an OER portal from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. I searched by discipline, then filtered for language. You can also filter for education level: http://temoa.tec.mx/
4. The National University of Colombia: www.virtual.unal.edu.co
Hi everyone, if you have a few moments to respond, I would appreciate knowing what are the "best" alternatives to Pearson's MySpanishLab, either open or "affordable". I have a team of faculty working on converting Introduction to Spanish and there is now a dispute over whether they should actually go OER or stick with what they use because they feel that MySpanishLab is immensely valuable. They're Pearson rep is capitalizing on this and offering a $60/semester alternative and one of the faculty members wants me to see what they get through MySpanishLab to understand what they need.
We have been working with several teams of Spanish language instructors for extending our ADAPT homework system into this area. Part of this effort involves building and harvesting summative H5P problems (several thousand so far) that can complement formative use (i.e., with a gradebook vs. without). Many of these exercises can be converted into more secure technology (since students can hack into most H5P implementations easily) on our platform. We just introduced a feature that allows students to record and submit audio submissions and allow for graders/instructors to send back audio too.
We are very receptive to new ideas at this stage of development, so if you tell us what you like about MySpanishLab, we may be able to fold it into our platform.
Check out our playlist on the project: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL83Q_gTbFatR74UV_Cbq0hZ3VvAxhRZJ3
We will also be showcasing ADAPT in our Spring LibreFest workshop next month (May 25th) :
https://blog.libretexts.org/2021/03/19/next-librefest-scheduled-for-may-25-2021/
At the Open Education Conference in Phoenix in 2019, Alessandra Ribota and Dr. Gabriela Zapata from Texas A&M University gave a presentation on using OER materials that they had developed for Spanish classes. They were hosting the materials themselves and it was not on a national repository. Check out her website below and maybe email them if you need more information.
Here is Dr. Zapata’s OER materials on her home page: https://www.gzapatatexasam.com/
Apologies for cross-posting. I have a Spanish professor interested in exploring zero-cost materials solutions for her classes,
and she's wondering about the possibility of speaking/listening practice with native speakers—some sort of language exchange possibly?
Bonus points if there's a way to integrate into the LMS to allow for assignment completion tracking, etc.
I know it's not what we traditionally think of as "OER" but thought I'd check to see if anyone has any suggestions.
Here is an introduction to Spanish OER with audio files and H5P activities. I believe Pressbooks has an LMS integration option for the H5P activities.
You may already be aware of this resource -- and I am unsure if they provide exactly what your professor is looking for --
but one place to check would be The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) at UT Austin:
https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/ .
Great question, Brandon. I’m part of a team that created a first-year Spanish homework ancillary that is housed on LibreTexts’ ADAPT platform.
It can be easily brought into Canvas and Blackboard, and it includes speaking and listening practices.
The Instructor Guide for Tarea Libre has all the information.
I'm not sure how much traffic this service still gets but, I think it is what you're looking for:
https://www.language-exchanges.org/
We (the LibreTexts dev. team) have collected 1000+ Spanish H5P assessments in our studio including those that Sarah mentioned and others.
https://studio.libretexts.org/browse/collections?Subject=&subject%5B29%5D=29&tags=&key=Spanish
GED in Spanish
One of our faculty members supports Spanish language speakers taking the GED, and she needs argumentative essays written in Spanish that are easy to understand. If you don't know of argumentative essays, specifically, any essay collections would be helpful.
https://es.wikibooks.org may have something you could use.
Native Speakers' Spanish
I’ve got an instructor who teaches Spanish 3 for Native Speakers.
Does anyone know of anything?
COERLL has an OER website for Spanish as a heritage language – it’s not exactly the same thing as native speaker Spanish but it may be useful for them.
There are no full curricula on there but there are lots of different units and activities by a variety of educators.
I’d be happy to speak to her further if she has any questions. Here’s the link:
https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/ .
Most of the actual OER is on the Resources > Classroom activities tab.
Native Speaker's Spanish Materials
I got a question about finding OER in Spanish and I could use some help answering! To clarify, this question is not about materials to learn Spanish,
but rather course materials for Spanish speakers. Bilingual resources would be most helpful so that the same course could be taught in both English and Spanish.
Here's what I already know of.
Lindsay's recent message about the Spanish translations of OpenStax textbooks was helpful. Go to
https://openstax.org/subjects , then from the "subjects" dropdown select Spanish to view.
There is also the excellent collection for Early Childhood Education from College of the Canyons that has Spanish translations available:
https://tinyurl.com/ECEOERSummary .
Libretext has a Spanish area of their site:
https://espanol.libretexts.org/ - but it's not clear what's here. Are these OER composed in Spanish?
Are they professional translations of OER from elsewhere on the site? Is it machine translations of their English-language collection?
Others have previously shared a list of repositories and resources for OER in Spanish:
https://es.serlo.org/community/199370/lista-de-repositorios-motores-de-b%C3%BAsqueda-y-sitios-web-con-licencias-rea .
I haven't given it a try myself and I'm not sure whether its focus is on translations or original work.
Other resources to share? Thank you!
Thank you for asking this question and sharing repositories you’ve used!
I’ve been meaning to post the same for “best websites for non-English language OER”
as I’m helping an instructor locate alternative reading materials for various subjects,
that are in languages other than English to support students’ understanding of various subjects.
OER Commons: advanced search option with a lot of filters (limit by language and subject area, and type of content).
OER in Other Languages: repository dedicated to collecting OER in languages other than English; more for browsing than searching (simple blog)
Open Textbook – BC Campus Non-English OER
OpenLibra.com (can switch interface between English and Spanish, and filter to English materials or Spanish materials; low-tech interface
Scielo: academic science journals from Spanish- and Portuguese-Speaking countries, many in Spanish, Portuguese, or English; some with abstracts in both languages
Redalyc: OER repository in Mexico of scientific journals
I’m hoping to learn about more international repositories as well (there was a (UN?)
report about OER in countries other than the United States and that also gave me ideas for looking for specific language/country
repositories or international universities/government programs producing OER)
Tannis Morgan did a lot of work with OER in languages other than English. See her site here "OER in Other Languages" https://oloer.opened.ca
And her bio here: https://ctlr.vcc.ca/about/our-team Her homonym.ca website is down.
And some other readings on english-dominance at:
Language and the OER Problem (part 1)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180812095914/https://homonym.ca/uncategorized/language-and-the-oer-problem/
Language and the OER Problem (part 2)
https://press.rebus.community/openatthemargins/chapter/oer-and-the-language-problem-part-2-the-status-and-function-rationale/
There is also a mention in: Breaking Open: Ethics, Epistemology, Equity, and Power
https://press.rebus.community/openatthemargins/chapter/breaking-open-ethics-epistemology-equity-and-power/
Technology Literacy Focus in Spanish
I'm looking for resources in Spanish with a technology literacy focus such as basic Word, keyboarding, using a computer, etc.
About 18 months ago we used machine translation to convert 100,000 pages of English OER into Spanish ( https://espanol.libretexts.org/ ).
It isn't a perfect translation, but the need for Spanish OER was great out there and this was stop-gap starting solution that can be expanded on with human improvements.
In fact, the Spanish library is now the 2nd most popular library in our corpus with 50M+ pageviews per year, which further emphasizes the need for non-English OER development.
We have some workforce resources that may be of use to you in the Vocacional bookshelf:
https://espanol.libretexts.org/Vocacional
Please let me know if this is useful to you.
Any new LibreTexts book can automatically be converted to any of 100 languages in this manner so if a new LibreTexts book is of interest to you and you want it in Spanish,
also please let us know.
GCF global, https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/ , has some great resources on the basics -- you can switch to Spanish on the top menu bar.
Workplace Spanish
I wanted to inquire about any material that has been created for Spanish for the Workplace/Business.
The instructor that I am working with indicated that this is an entry level course so the students will have little to no previous experience with Spanish.
Any leads would be greatly appreciated!
The closest thing I can think of is Cultural Interviews with International Business Executives, created by Orlando Kelm at the University of Texas: http://sites.utexas.edu/culturalinterviews/ .
Also on COERLL’s Spanish in Texas website here are the videos related to work:
I searched MERLOT and found this organization which has links to a variety of Spanish Business language resources:
https://nble.org/business/business-languages/business-spanish/