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'Powerpoint was not his thing': a poem on teaching and technology

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imageThe Parana River in moonlight. Gisela Giardino, CC BY-SA

I am a scholar and teacher of Spanish and Portuguese. I am also a poet.

The several books of poetry I have published in English, Spanish and Guarani (an indigenous South American language and one of the official languages of Paraguay), plus numerous readings of my work, both in Paraguay and at...

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