Giovanni A. Rodríguez Rivera

DISD World Languages Department Instructional Specialist

Born and raised in Puerto Rico. Passionate about literature, writing, and language acquisition at an early age. Completed studies in English Literature majoring in ESL for Secondary Education from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Humacao. A few years later, also completed studies in Hispanic-American Literature for the teaching of Literature in Spanish. Taught ESL and/or Spanish for both public and private schools for over 15 years. Now, part of the World Languages Department Team as the Instructional Specialist for the Dallas Independent School District in Dallas Texas. All things geeky/gaming enthusiast since childhood, part of the Extra Life Charity Yearly Event since 2012 raising funds for local children's hospitals in the US, Puerto Rico and Canada through The Children Miracle Network.

Game On: Encouraging Target Language Usage Through Video Games in Streaming Platforms

In this session we will talk about how to encourage students to interact within the gaming/ streaming world in the target language. For the longest time, one of the biggest misconceptions in gaming related content was that it was bland, for a very niche audience and that it had to be all done in English. Turns out that through the years, both gaming industry and consumers of gaming evolve bringing much value to gaming related activities, inadvertently providing new reach and usages of languages in a brand new setting.

This presentation will be available for on-demand viewing on December 2nd during Global CRED. Register for Global CRED below, it’s quick easy and free!