Teaching (or something) during a pandemic This past March (which seems like decades ago) and when my school's spring break began, I had every intention of… Posted on: May 1, 2020 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Taking the 20,000 foot view on my class A confession: I found myself, in one dark and gloomy moment of the semester, completely fixated on the size of… Posted on: April 19, 2018 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
Well this is embarrassing I just checked. It has been over almost a year since I last posted something to this site. I am… Posted on: April 16, 2018 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Building Eurovision into my (why yes it’s April, how could you tell?) syllabus Recently in my class we had a discussion of our guilty pleasures and when we choose to indulge ourselves in them.… Posted on: April 14, 2017 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Weekly Check-ins Using Google Voice One of the hardest things to do in a second language is to talk on the phone. Worse still: leave a… Posted on: April 6, 2017 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Podcasts, intensive listening practice, and water Recently I figured out a way to "marry" two of my favorite activities: swimming and listening to podcasts. Last year… Posted on: December 8, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Binge watching and language learning We are winding down into the holiday season, and that time when after all of the hullabaloo is over and… Posted on: November 24, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Listening Journals Developing one's listening and speaking abilities is a slow, sometimes invisible process. In a 16 week semester it sometimes feels… Posted on: October 8, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Radio Ambulante in the Spanish Language Classroom: AATSP 2015 I am here in Denver giving a presentation at the AATSP conference on using Radio Ambulante in the Spanish language… Posted on: July 17, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Teaching Listening: RA episodes: Useful tags, Trigger warnings This week I created a google doc with all of the Radio Ambulante episodes that can be used in the Spanish language… Posted on: November 22, 2014 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments