Say MOOC again! How MOOC mayhem might make us better teachers The MOOCs are coming. Be very afraid. And did you hear them say that they are coming to take over… Posted on: March 27, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
Spring cleaning! We spent the weekend doing some housecleaning here at LLU... a coat of fresh paint, moved some furniture around, opened… Posted on: March 24, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Launching. I have two jobs at my institution: I am a language center director and I am language teacher. Both… Posted on: March 15, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 9 Comments
Shoveling I live in Northeast Ohio. Northeast Ohio looks a lot like this for most of the months between… Posted on: February 25, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Nature abhors a vacuum… but no more than I do The first week of the second semester is done and over... I could tell because I was face down… Posted on: February 11, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Tune Up and a Smack down (part 2): The gringa returns to Bogotá Last summer I had the extraordinary good fortune to travel back in time. Okay not really, but in many ways… Posted on: February 4, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
To the rescue…or not A thousand years ago when I taught high school Spanish, a colleague of mine and I used to make… Posted on: November 29, 2012 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Laptops in the classroom: could we please move the conversation from being punitive to productive? It is college visiting season again in our household... my younger son is now looking for the place to… Posted on: November 9, 2012 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
Midsemester meltdown This semester I am teaching second semester second year Spanish. You know the class... the one where you have to… Posted on: October 16, 2012 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
A tune-up and a smack-down: The gringa returns to Bogotá Readers of LLU might remember a series of blog posts I did entitled "Teaching What You Thought You Knew," in… Posted on: August 8, 2012 By: bsawhill