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Hi, and welcome to this site, created by Susan Seraphine-Kimel, proud to be Florida's 2001-02 FAATSP Spanish Teacher of the Year. I am newly-retired from the faculty of Astronaut High School, Titusville, part of the Brevard County School District. I am also pleased to be the founder of the Capítulo Juan Carlos of La Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica. Here at EspañOlé I hope you will find all you need for the study, teaching, and/or appreciation of the Spanish language, its literature, AP exams, the Hispanic arts, music, people, history, foods, and lands. EspañOlé is honored to be named a resource of the AP Central-College Board website and I am pleased to be the Spanish consultant/tutor for Optimnem online language learning, and the creator of the AP Spanish Language Web Guide.

Hola y bienvenido a este sitio, creado por Susan Seraphine-Kimel, orgullosa de ser la Maestra del Año de la Florida en la enseñanza del español, 2001-02. Soy profesora en el Colegio Astronaut, Titusville, una parte de las escuelas de Brevard County, Florida. Aquí puedes encontrar todo de lo que necesitas para el estudio, la enseñanza, y/o la apreciación de la lengua española, la literatura, los refranes, los exámenes AP, la gente, la historia, las bellas artes, las comidas, y todo de los paises hispanohablantes. También soy consultante del website de aprendizaje, Optimnem.

Headquarters for la LENGUA ESPAÑOLA here. Everything about the Spanish language for teachers and students, including AP language test resources, a dedication to the AP test readers, learning activities, and a special section for Hispanic Americans await you.

Hundreds and hundreds of the best-loved SPANISH REFRANES, alphabetized.

Need resources? Search engines, dictionaries, translators, money converters, Spanish web cards, pen pals, Spanish chats, on-line Hispanic schools, all newspapers and magazines, radio stations, holidays, bullfighting, amusement parks, animals, and all about soccer are here in the CENTRO de RECURSOS

Literary classics, authors, and all AP literature writers are featured here at LA LITERATURA y LOS ESCRITORES

Find endless lesson plan ideas and activities, goodies for working with younger students, ESOL students, textbooks and publishers' on-line sites, webpages by other teachers, and your professional organizations here on la PÁGINA de LOS PROFESORES Also here: La Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica, Capítulo Juan Carlos

For LAS BELLAS ARTES including museums, artists, musicians, classical recording stars, & dance, click here.

Meet the contemporary Hispanics who are making today's news in sports, space, art, literature, music, movies, politics and television. This is your link to LA GENTE CONTEMPORÁNEA

To visit each of the 20 Hispanic countries plus Puerto Rico, LOS PAISES is your destination for history, maps and a visitor's tour.

Pay an historical visit to our continent from its pre-Columbian days, to the Spanish conquest, to the present. Dozens of links just added and a new emphasis on St. Augustine and La Florida. This is your link to LA HISTORIA y LA HERENCIA

Cooking hints, recipes, metric conversions and all the sabor de la COCINA LATINA - Click here for a 'round the world food fiesta!

Join our adventures to Argentina and Brazil, SPAIN 2000 or Europe 2002.

See the MexCal Queen, TABITHA , live in concert at AHS

CLIC aquí to visit MY HOME PAGE.

CLIQ ici to visit my French site, PARLEZ-VOUS


Try learning Spanish online!! Optimnem is where and why.







EspañOlé! is proud to have won the All Brevard Cool Site designation on 10-22-98, Ravi's Elite Site award on 11/26/98, Shooter's Cool Site award on 1/15/98, and was been named the Agora Language Marketplace January Web '99 pick. On March 18, we were given the Pacific Bell Blue Web'n educational award designation. On March 20, we became Argus Clearinghouse approved. We were a Hot Spot on The School Page educational site in May, 1999, and also named as an EducationWorld resource. About.com names us as an educators' Spanish resource, summer, '99. October, 2000: MasEducativa in Granada, Spain, recognized EspañOlé for its content and design, while TypicallySpanish.com, that nation's largest English-language site, linked us as a resource and Search Iberia makes us an educational recommendation as well. LANIC, the abuelo of all things Hispanic, links to us on their language page.

Since year 2000 this site has been linked to Buffalo State College, Cal State San Marcos, Amherst College ; the schools of Davison, MI; University of Calgary, Alberta; Cal State, San Marcos; University of London; the New York State Virtual Research Library, the Kent Campus Foreign Language Tutoring Lab in Jacksonville, the Shelby County Alabama Board of Education, Berkely, CA, Interactive U; Davison, Michigan language sites; Pioneer Central Schools, New York;

2002: Educators' Road Map to the Web The Journal of Penn State; Utah Education Network literary patterns; the Internet Public Library TeenSpace, Pioneer Schools of New York, Speak from Austria; Utah Education Network; Stirling Law Sites for Educators; Colegio Los Nogales in Colombia, Teach-nology; Great Neck, NY public schools; Teaching Spanish, RefDesk.com homework helpers; Middle School Partnership; STEP Star primary Spanish; SchoolWeb/Spaans, a Belgian site; and Spanish Programs.

By 2003 we became a resource link for The City of Chula Vista; Fredericksburg Academy EdGate; Lucas Elementary at Ft. Campbell, KY; Chestnut Hill College Logue Library; Germantown Academy in PA; Milton Public Schools in Massachusetts; Laura Buddington's Portfolio; the Google Directory; APC News from Academic Planet; U of Arizona instructor Lisa Howells; Project Birch in México; Lausanne School, Memphis, TN; E.L. Easton's Spanish reading site; Central Arizona College; UELMA in Utah; Florida Community College, Jacksonville; Stark Ohio Schools; Themepark Patterns, Utah Education Network; iEspaña's Enlaces; Colegio Los Nogales, Bogotá Colombia; Bob Bowman's language links; Multilingual Center; Levende Talen, Netherlands; Lewiston-Porter HS, NY; Hampstead School District, NH; Northwest Nazarene University, Idaho; Marshall University, WVA; JibaraEducada is a voice from Austin, TX, for Puertorriqueños everywhere.

More recently we became a top link at Tarjetas Gratuitas and in 2005 to the Florida Humanities Council colonial St. Augustine guide. The E-Language School site chose us for their quality Spanish website award in 2006.

Shooter's
      Cool Site Award



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