{"id":24140,"date":"2022-01-04T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=24140"},"modified":"2023-06-21T13:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T17:04:44","slug":"2020-barlow-travel-grant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/2020-barlow-travel-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Barlow Travel Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Leah Clark Velez \u201902<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Personal Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Leah Clark Velez \u201902<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Bates Barlow Travel Grant offered me an incredible opportunity to exponentially build my pedagogical photo collection for my Spanish language classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of two months, I took 3,203 pictures of daily life in Manizales, Colombia: restaurants, food, supermarkets, open-air markets, shopping centers, the exterior and interior of homes, businesses, street signs, municipal and public buildings, schools, universities, and so much more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After almost a decade of piecing together a photo collection from my pre-digital and pre-instructional years, I now have a large catalog of pictures that correspond to the Georgia Performance Standards themes for Modern Languages, taken from a perspective that will meet my needs as a language instructor, that I have already begun to integrate into instructional units. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the short term, I hope to present this project at the ACTFL 2022 Convention in Boston, MA, while in the medium term, I hope to create a student manual for my classroom, as well as slides and a manual that I can share with other teachers for use in their classrooms, or as inspiration for their own methods, teaching strategies, and projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Manizales, Colombia<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Trip Report<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My trip for the Bates Barlow Travel Grant has come to an end, but I feel the opportunities to develop and grow my idea are only beginning. I would like to visit more countries to take additional pictures so students may see the variations between Spanish-speaking countries. I have asked my Spanish-speaking students to take pictures, specifically of rural home interiors, plates of prepared food, and menus if they travel to Mexico or Guatemala. <\/p>\n\n\n\n