Kate Grovergrys
Kate Grovergrys is a Spanish professor at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin. In her current position, she has developed and taught introductory, intermediate and advanced Spanish courses in a variety of formats including face-to-face, hybrid, online and accelerated. Prior to teaching at Madison Area Technical College, Kate taught Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Lourdes High School in Rochester, Minnesota. She holds a B.A. in Spanish from Valparaiso University in Indiana, and a M.A. in Spanish Literature & Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. In 2012, she became certified as an online instructor when she completed the E-learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate at UW-Stout. She is passionate about language teaching and enjoys fostering an engaging learning community in her classes.

Lauren Rosen
Lauren Rosen is the director of the University of Wisconsin System Collaborative Language Program. For the past twenty years she has been growing a now nationally recognized program for diversifying language course offerings on university campuses. In addition, she works closely with K-16 language educators in developing engaging collaborative approaches to technology integration into a variety of language learning environments including both traditional and distance courses. Ms. Rosen has published numerous articles on the integration of Internet technology for learning world languages and is a regular presenter at state, regional, national and international conferences. As an often-requested speaker, her current research focus is on the impact of web technologies to foster 21st century skills in the world language curriculum.