(C) I am Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. I teach courses in elementary education, specializing in first and second language acquisition and bilingual and bicultural education. My research looks at the relationship between technology-mediated social interaction and the development of multimodal, multilingual pedagogies. I received a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University and a masters degree from University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain. Web