This entry is part 1 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyThe purpose of education, in particular higher education, is to teach creative, intelligent, thoughtful, capable people the skills needed to go into the world and do amazing things. The purpose of a college level Spanish Conversation class, it follows, is to give students the(…)
Like I said before, I love a challenge, and after my last post here it was: @sfern If you can find one of dancing Yaz, I can git-r-dun — Barbara Sawhill (@BSawhill) March 29, 2013 So thanks to Ryan, I was gifted (heh) a lovely animated image of Carl Yastrzemski doing (something close to a) dance. Add to the mix(…)
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the seriesRolling My Own In addition to getting the front-facing part of my website in order before this summer, I’ve been thinking about ways I can control (and keep the data from) more of my web-based infrastructure. Tim Owens has really been …
Opening Day at Fenway Park is almost here! Even the Bava is dancing with joy! Here is a link to John Johnston’s ds106 assignment that I followed. While I should have been commenting on my students’ blogs, ever the procrastinatrix, I spent an hour or so with Ryan‘s encouragement via Google Hangout (read: “Be patient!” “No, don’t(…)
The MOOCs are coming. Be very afraid. And did you hear them say that they are coming to take over language teaching???…. OH THE HORROR! <Yawn.> As language teachers we have been here many times. And as I have said before, (over three years ago!) if our teaching practices are such that they could be(…)
With an awesome new job on the horizon, one that not only encourages but demands regular reflection via blogging, I decided to take this weekend and get my digital house in order. When I started building my portfolio last spring, I expected to run both that and my blog off …
We spent the weekend doing some housecleaning here at LLU… a coat of fresh paint, moved some furniture around, opened some windows, changed a couple lightbulbs here and there. And yes, the dog helped. Please let us know what you think !
This entry is part 2 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyOne of the reasons I love to teach is that I get to learn. Be it from my students or the people who come to our class… every semester I acquire new knowledge, ideas, and perspectives thanks to what happens in the classroom. As(…)
I have two jobs at my institution: I am a language center director and I am language teacher. Both roles, in fact, involve a certain amount of teaching. The type of teaching I do in the classroom mirrors the way I work with my staff: They come to this class or this job with(…)
Congratulations to Ryan – on landing the job of his dreams — from all of us in a certain unconventional language center located in a small, quirky, liberal arts college. It was here where Ryan studied, worked and first discovered …a bit too well…. how to break technology when it gets in the way of letting(…)
I live in Northeast Ohio. Northeast Ohio looks a lot like this for most of the months between November and March April. Shovelling is a part of my life, and never has that been moreso than this year (thank you Winter Storm Nemo) My house is on a corner which means we have two(…)
The first week of the second semester is done and over… I could tell because I was face down on the couch at about 6 p.m.last night wondering if it really was too soon to go to bed (the answer: no). I am starting this term a bit off kilter. Our Educational Technology Specialist(…)