Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Juan Manuel Soto Arriví has been teaching Spanish since 1994, when he started teaching as a doctoral student. In those years when the Internet was young, he started creating online Spanish language instructional materials for his students and his personal website became one of the first online resources for learners of Spanish.

In 1999, he joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at IUB as a lecturer, charged with developing online instructional materials. This task led to the creation of Proyecto Ancla, an online instructional website that he has been managing and developing ever since. As one of the early adopters of instructional technology, he believes in the use of technology as a resource to enhance teaching, which is something that he has had the opportunity to do within the Basic Spanish Language Program as director of Instructional Technology since 2002.