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title: Laura Perez-Munoz 20230901
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# Laura Perez-Munoz 20230901

## quotes from application
"During the past two years I have been fascinated by how various professors and language instructors are making language learning more accessible by using social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels. In addition to their formal teaching curricula, language instructors are adapting their lessons to engaging and captivating short form videos suitable for social media. As much as social media can be a source of distraction in our daily lives, it offers an incredible opportunity to engage with our selected audience through methods not available to us in our day-to-day exchanges, especially in a classroom setting."

"I’m also interested in working with long form video, captioning, editing information and user experience in the website. I’m experienced in photography, video, and voice recordings."

## areas of interest

* language learning 
* longform video
* website design 

## messy notes 

* What do you know already from your departments, if anything? What have you already been asked to do?
    * Laura mentioned wanting to work with Nicole Mills to work on her project 
    * Laura is also excited/happy that RLL has exchange programs 
        * Laura was hoping to make short-form videos on the differences between language learned in the classroom v. what you learn during exchange (specifically, informal language and slang)
            * she also talks about the intricacies of teaching the same language across multiple regions, and how creating these shortform videos could help students about to go on exchange 
                * for example, words that transform from innocuous to offensive depending on where you go in Spanish (Argentina versus Spain, etc.)
        * Laura wants to focus on working in TikTok specifically. This is a format and platform she is most interested in
        * Laura is similarly interested in crafting a website version on a guidebook 

    * cd has mentioned that we work primarily with French
        * Laura would like to apply the same kind of activities/workshops for Spanish 

    * main goals: 
        * shortform videos
        * online content 
        * website design 

    * dd brought up other needs/recommendations 
        * dd brought up the need for captioning, subtitling, etc. 
        * dd also brought up the use of canva in french courses 
        * and, that if stuent record videos, we would want Laura's help facilitating 



* What do you want to learn/how do you want to grow this year?
    * skills she wants to build: 
        * premiere pro 
        * coding 
            * especially in relation to her career, and building skills that make sure she doesn't "get left behind" out of the cutting edge end of language learning 

    * labs 
        * cd recommended avLab, Laura affirmed that that lab is of interest to her and aligns with her interests 