Greetings Students and Fellow Wikipedians!

Hola! I am a English-as-a-foreign-language instructor who has worked at ITESM for over 5 years... for the first five years worked at Campus Toluca but now I am in charge of the language laboratories at Campus Ciudad de Mexico. My professional interests are Computer assisted language learning, Self_access_language_learning_centers and the teaching of composition. At Campus Toluca, I started their self access digital lab and used Wikipedia for the advanced college-level English classes to teach writing skills. Because of this, I tend to work on articles related to Mexican geography and Language education. At Campus CCM, Im working on changing the laboratory focus to the traditional (read: boring) listening drill work at workstations as a class (you know the crap we've been doing since the 1960's) to a self access resource center.

In Toluca, my students in English Advanced A and Advanced B worked on a number of Wikipedia articles in 2007 and 2008. However, due to change of jobs, I will not be working with Wikipedia as a teacher. I still edit on my own, however. As lab director, one of my duties is to promote computer assisted language learning and Wikipedia is part of that.

I have a B.A. in Linguistics from Rutgers University, a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Arizona and M.A. in English Language and Linguistics from the U. of Arizona. I have taught advanced English as a second/foreign language for over 10 years at Cochise College, the U. of Arizona, ITESM Toluca and ITESM Ciudad de Mexico

I am originally from Carteret, New Jersey but I have lived in California, Texas, Germany, Massachusetts and Tucson, Arizona, Toluca, [[Mexico] and now Mexico City. I love Mexico but I DO SOOOOO miss decent pizza and bagels! (I dont miss telemarketers and junk mail however. :D ) As you can see, my professional life takes up much of my time and effort at this point in my life. That is because after being a stay-at-home mom for 15 years or so, its time to have a career! That and the fact that I love what I do.

Add to what I do in Wikipedia... I am an administrator in Mexico English Teacher's Alliance MM META and I have just created a wiki-webliography for language teachers at Virtual Language Laboratory

For the more mundane stuff... I am 44 years old, 7 years divorced with a 20-year-old son. When I am not being a workaholic I sew and quilt as well as keep in touch with quite a few English teachers around the world. I just recently closed on an apt. in Mexico City in which I finally live in full-time!


Havent gotten any of my work rated yet, but articles Ive worked extensively on include:

* Mexico City Cathedral My first Good Article!
* History of Mexico City
* National Palace (Mexico)
* Nacional Monte de Piedad
* Zocalo (rated as "stub" (???) by Wikiproject Architecure)
* Centro (Mexico City)
* Jane Elliott (Rated as "start" by Wikiproject Biography)
* Colonia Doctores
* Computer assisted language learning (Rated as "start" by Wikiproject homeschooling)
* Self access language learning centers
* 1985 Mexico City earthquake (rated as "start" by Wikiproject earthquakes) Nomination for Good Article status
* Tolantongo
* Toluca(rated as "B" by Wikiproject Cities)
* Federal District buildings
* Almoloya del Río
* Templo Mayor(rated "B" by Wikiproject Mesoamerica)
* Agustin de Iturbide
* Valley of Mexico

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en This user is a native speaker of English.

es-3 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.

spanish
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english This user is a translator from spanish to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

This user hopes to be a Mexican citizen someday.

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.


9 This user has set foot in 9 countries of the world.
This user attends or has attended Rutgers University.

A This user attends or attended the University of Arizona.
BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics.

BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish.

MA This user has a Master of Arts degree in English Language and Linguistics.
This user works at the ITESM-Campus Toluca.

This user teaches at a university or other institution of higher education.

As an English teacher, this user reads Wikipedia with a red pen in hand.

This user is or was a member of The United States Army. USA
This user is interested in Wicca.

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WPN This user is a member of WikiProject Neopaganism.


This user is a cat lover.

This user thinks no outfit is complete without cat hair.



This user's favourite animal is the Grizzly Bear.

This user thinks pets should only come from an animal shelter.

Sellout This user watches the Super Bowl for the ads.

This user plays ping pong.



This user plays 8-ball.

This user plays 9-ball.
This user does not smoke.

This user supports Stem Cell research.
EDNOS This user has eating disorder not otherwise specified.


This user prefers pizza made in
Jersey.


This user prefers cheesesteaks with provolone.

This user knows that MREs owe their famed longevity to the fact that even bacteria will not touch the stuff.
This user worships Mexican gastronomy and gladly eats some chili con carne with his Corona.

This user would likely die without eating the occasional curry.

BAM! This user believes that gaaahhhlic is a beautiful thing!

This user eats bagels.
☢ This user enjoys Cabbage In soup, Corned Beef, and Fish Tacos

This user loves döner kebab.

This user loves paella.

This user eats sushi.
Why would anyone eat a peep?

This user eats Swedish Fish.

A&W This user loves A&W Root Beer

COKE
zero This user drinks COKE Zero religiously.
C2H5OH-2 This user drinks occasionally.

This user drinks beer.

This user is more than happy to retain their "personality disorder(s)" and delights in telling their mental health professional to screw off.

This user survived El Grito 2007 in the Zocalo. ¡VIVA MEXICO!


This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

This user remembers when
television programming was only in black-and-white.

This user is American; recognized ancestry ends at the border.

This user is straight
but not narrow.

This user is Single.
Too many userboxes This user may have too many userboxes ... nah, no way!!

:( This user provides information using userboxes because he or she is bored.



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