Creating community: a new proof-of-concept. Earlier this summer I had the opportunity to spend two days asking "I wonder what THIS button does?" and "Gee,… Posted on: August 14, 2010 By: Ryan Brazell With: 1 Comment
Beware of the Eduzombies This semester some colleagues and I are putting together a series of presentations called TechnoTuesdays. I blogged about this previously… Posted on: March 15, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
Flickrpoet and the Language Classroom I became aware of FlickrPoet via a tweet on Twitter, and have been playing around with it a bit. Here… Posted on: December 28, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Professional development: Simple, small-scale, and cost-effective As I mentioned here, I am a center director first and a teacher second. As a center director I teach… Posted on: November 4, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Teaching Transparently: Scuba diving in 2nd year college Spanish www.flickr.com This fall we had an overabundance of enrollments in the first semester of 2nd year Spanish class. And with… Posted on: October 18, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
What we did in class today February 20, 2009: On Fridays, my students in HISP 205 have decided that we should play games...games that stimulate thinking… Posted on: February 20, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
Flowgram It's been while... You might be wondering whether this blog is dead or if the recession has made its mark… Posted on: November 14, 2008 By: Felix Kronenberg With: 0 Comments
Calling all K-12 language teachers (a.k.a. one of the hardest teaching jobs out there): Please share your stories! Prior to coming to my current job in higher ed and language learning technology, I taught in a grade school.… Posted on: March 26, 2008 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
Student-centered learning using technology…circa 1970 We are snowed in here, unable to go anywhere, so I am reading my students blogs and watching their explorations… Posted on: March 8, 2008 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
Doodle…Sloodle…Moodle I thought I would share a great clip I found on YouTube from Mary Ann Mengel from a Center for… Posted on: March 4, 2008 By: Doug Canfield With: 2 Comments