Telecollaboration CU and BUAP (Mexico) The project: to recreate a transnational social interaction inside a classroom. Participants: CU Boulder:The University of Colorado at Boulder does a great job on using technology for in person classes. Over the past few years, CU has focused on utilizing D2L platform, which stand for "Desire to learn", an educational technology company with corporate headquarters in Kitchener, Ontario, as the campus LMS (Learning Management System). They offer a digital space that allows for the creation of personal websites for each course. This resource is a great tool for communicating with students in many levels, and for giving them access to all the material used during the semester. But when learning a language, this is not enough. Additionally this platform does not account for students interacting between different universities, because D2L is purchased directly by one institution and therefore becomes exclusive to that institution and its students. Students and instructors from other universities are not able to create accounts in the other campus D2L. BUAP (Mexico): Likewise for the university in Mexico, the use of technological resources and platforms is limited. Students learning English in Mexico bound their learning experience to that of the classroom. When learning a language inside a classroom the limitations are huge. It is possible to teach some linguistics aspects, as grammar and pronunciation, but classroom teaching can only recreate a very constrained environment for cultural learning. Goal: Telecollaboration brings social and intercultural competency to the language classroom, which often seems to be missing in college language courses on campus. The answer is social interaction and communication through such means as social media, which is a very present day communication method. Virtual telecollaboration: First experience: Our first experience was during the Spring semester of 2016. This experience took place during three weeks, and students discussed cultural topics through two readings and two short-films. We used Edmodo, which is a social media network that enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents. It was a pilot experience that allowed us to familiarize ourselves with international exchanges in an online discussion format. This first experience allowed the connection of instructors in Mexico and the US, and it provided the opportunity to familiarize all participants to what a small component of a cultural diversity addition might look like. These three weeks were considered as a learning experience for all the participants in the project in order to be able to repeat it in the future. Second experience: We planned to lengthen the telecollaboration experience in the Fall 2016 semester to be 8 weeks. The biggest change was switching to Canvas because Edmodo had some limitations. For instance student couldn't communicate privately by emails or couldn't have private conversations. Canvas, on the other hand, is another media network that allows students to have casuals and private interactions other than in a public chat room. The other significant change was the use of Skype, that helps students to develop real time conversations with native speakers. The Fall 2016 semester was organized in this manner: The Fall 2016 semester was organized in this manner: Week 1 – Introductions Week 2 – Articles and Video discussion in Spanish Week 3 – Articles and Video discussion in English Week 4 – Articles and Video discussion in Spanish Week 5 – Articles and Video discussion in English Week 6 – Skype conversations in Spanish Week 7 – Skype conversations in English Week 8 – Reflection Paper Future expectations: Future studies will include the use of Zoom where we can record the interactions between students in a video/audio format and analyze the interactions. Since we have presented the initial findings, more educators are expressing interest in telecollaboration and we hope to connect other language educators between both universities in the future.