Week four of my Spanish conversation class has just finished. I am teaching 2X a week vs 3X a week…my hope was that we would have more time on task if we met for an hour and 15 minutes (vs 3X a week @ 50 minutes). The class meets at night. [...]

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The holidays are upon us which in my house usually means long hours “boca arriba” on the couch… reading, listening to music, catching up on sleep. I am lucky in that my college has a winter shutdown period (to save on energy costs) and we are all forced to stay home for about 10 [...]

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My dear colleague and comrade/comadre in blogging, Barbara Ganley, has been chiding me via Twitter about how long it has been since I have been here on the blog. She is the queen of slow blogging (borrowing the term from the slow food movement.)Her posts emerge as multimedia feasts to savor and to ponder [...]

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