Language Lab Unleashed – Page 11 – It's not your 8th grade language lab anymore!

Unused NordicTracks and Babies: Thoughts about Rosetta Stone

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuckp/2571595965/ Alternative Uses For A NordicTrack (Photo by ChuckP on Flickr) I receive at least one call every month from…

Posted on: July 12, 2013
By: bsawhill
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SpinTX: Open and Authentic Spanish language videos for teaching and learning

I am constantly on the look-out for resources of authentic Spanish language. As I mentioned before Radio Ambulante is a…

Posted on: July 10, 2013
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Improvisational teaching

I still have draft posts in the hopper from the June 2010 nmc summer meeting (yes, June 2010...yes, this post…

Posted on: July 8, 2013
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Fear, Motivation, Social Consciousness and Language Learning: the graph

As I started to put away papers from the last semester, I found this graph that one of my students…

Posted on: July 5, 2013
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Using Radio Ambulante in the Spanish language classroom

This semester I discovered an astonishingly awesome audio resource: Radio Ambulante. Radio Ambulante is a Spanish-language radio program showcasing compelling…

Posted on: July 3, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Creating, Uploading, Commenting and Sharing Audio via SoundCloud

Thanks to the folks over is ds106-land, I have been introduced to the wonders of SoundCloud, a web-based sound recording…

Posted on: July 1, 2013
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Notes I jotted to myself at the end of the term

Somewhere in the post surgery end of semester haze, I jotted down some notes to myself about things I…

Posted on: June 28, 2013
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There is no mystery in grading

Each semester for the past 5 or so years, I have asked my students to write a one page self…

Posted on: June 26, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Student-centered, project-based learning…and a medical emergency

[images courtesy of The Noun Project] Readers of LLU know that I have worked over the past years to…

Posted on: June 24, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Well-behaved [minorities] seldom make history.

This spring has been a total whirlwind for me, on both professional and personal levels. Exhibit A: On March 2nd, I was sitting in an alumni leadership meeting at my alma mater, being briefed on the latest in a string of racist, homophobic, anti-semitic attacks on campus, and the actions the administration had been taking…