The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC) is developing an online community for college level Spanish instructors who are interested in connecting their heritage Spanish courses with other heritage classes in the U.S. through telecollaborative projects.
Telecollaboration is the application of online communication tools to bring together classes of language learners in geographically distant locations to develop their foreign language skills and intercultural competence through collaborative tasks and project work (Robert O'Dowd, 2011).
If you are a U.S.-based college Spanish instructor and are interested in creating telecollaboration projects for your heritage Spanish courses, please take a moment to complete this short form.  https://goo.gl/forms/z8eAIPHeWscRx39z2
In the first phase of the project, the data collected will be published on CILC's website in the form of a searchable database of practitioners. The database, which will be available in Spring 2017, and it will enable instructors to identify and contact potential partner instructors.
CILC is one of the National Language Resource Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and it is based at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.



Valeria Belmonti
Coordinator of Heritage Telecollaboration
Center for Integrated Language Communities
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10016-4309