About Author: Barbara

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Barbara has been working for a small liberal arts college in the cornfields of Ohio for about 15 years. In addition to teaching Spanish she runs a somewhat unconventional language center. Prior to this adventure in higher ed she taught high school Spanish and loved it. She wishes she had more time in her life to write, read, swim, and watch the Red Sox. And sometimes she blogs over here as well...

Posts by Barbara

  • Well lookee there.  We have been nominated for the bab.la/ Lexiophiles Language Lovers Top 100 blogs, under the category of Language Learning blogs. Yes, we have been nominated before, and...

    We’ve been nominated!

    Posted on May 7, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Well lookee there.  We have been nominated for the bab.la/ Lexiophiles Language Lovers Top 100 blogs, under the category of Language Learning blogs. Yes, we have been nominated before, and...

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  •   For the past 5 years, I have had the extraordinary good fortune to work  with  creative and talented people who value not only the need to create tools that...

    Our WordPress Class Blogging Tool: Now Yours Too

    Posted on April 26, 2012 | 4 Comments
      For the past 5 years, I have had the extraordinary good fortune to work  with  creative and talented people who value not only the need to create tools that...

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  •   Last month, I had the extraordinarily good fortune to be able attend the EUROCALL Open Educational Resources SIG Conference hosted by the  Centro Interfacoltà di Linguisitica Teorica ed Applicata...

    I have been to a flipped conference: and it worked!

    Posted on April 4, 2012 | No Comments
      Last month, I had the extraordinarily good fortune to be able attend the EUROCALL Open Educational Resources SIG Conference hosted by the  Centro Interfacoltà di Linguisitica Teorica ed Applicata...

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  •   A few weeks back I spent some time catching up on my blog reading, and was happy to see that Alan Levine was writing about the need to flip...

    A tilted keynote

    Posted on April 2, 2012 | 4 Comments
      A few weeks back I spent some time catching up on my blog reading, and was happy to see that Alan Levine was writing about the need to flip...

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  • It is the last day of the winter break and grades are due tomorrow.  Which means, of course, that I am doing everything BUT posting my grades.  It’s not that...

    Giving up on Google Reader

    Posted on January 2, 2012 | 3 Comments
    It is the last day of the winter break and grades are due tomorrow.  Which means, of course, that I am doing everything BUT posting my grades.  It’s not that...

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  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb31/6604485775 It is that wonderful time at the end of the calendar year when businesses and schools are closed and family members are home, together.  Here at our house,  in...

    There are no words.

    Posted on January 1, 2012 | No Comments
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb31/6604485775 It is that wonderful time at the end of the calendar year when businesses and schools are closed and family members are home, together.  Here at our house,  in...

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  • Before the semester comes to a crashing halt, and we all go off to hibernate for a while, I wanted to get out at least one more post here on...

    A few shout outs and a woof

    Posted on December 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Before the semester comes to a crashing halt, and we all go off to hibernate for a while, I wanted to get out at least one more post here on...

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  •   We are at the 1/2 way spot in our semester. It’s midterm grading time (here the grades at midterm are pretty simple: Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory, Really Unsatisfactory and Never Seen...

    Mid semester evaluation: Do it.

    Posted on November 2, 2011 | 6 Comments
      We are at the 1/2 way spot in our semester. It’s midterm grading time (here the grades at midterm are pretty simple: Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory, Really Unsatisfactory and Never Seen...

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  • This sign was on the door to my building the first week of class. I took the picture, I chuckled, and I stayed calm…I just forgot to post it here...

    Remain calm

    Posted on November 2, 2011 | No Comments
    This sign was on the door to my building the first week of class. I took the picture, I chuckled, and I stayed calm…I just forgot to post it here...

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  • One of my not-so-secret guilty pleasures is baseball. Growing up in a family of baseball enthusiasts and long-suffering Red Sox fans, listening to baseball games was something that put me...

    Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 4): El beísbol

    Posted on August 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
    One of my not-so-secret guilty pleasures is baseball. Growing up in a family of baseball enthusiasts and long-suffering Red Sox fans, listening to baseball games was something that put me...

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