disruptive technologies – Language Lab Unleashed

LLU Live #7: Programming as a “foreign language”

(image credit: fake bokeh robot, © CC BY-NC 2.0 by Balakov) Late last month, Edutopia (the official website of the George Lucas Educational Foundation)…

Posted on: November 14, 2013
By: Ryan Brazell
With: 4 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

A few shout outs and a woof

Before the semester comes to a crashing halt, and we all go off to hibernate for a while, I wanted…

Posted on: December 14, 2011
By: bsawhill

What every lab manager needs to know about the App Store

Ask any Apple fan why they love their desktop/laptop/iWhatever and inevitably you'll hear that Apple Devices Just Work. It's true…

Posted on: October 22, 2011
By: Ryan Brazell
With: 0 Comments

Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 1): Colombia

A thousand years ago, I studied at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I went during college and…

Posted on: July 9, 2011
By: bsawhill
With: 2 Comments

Taking a tour of the HISP 205 class blog

A few people have asked to have a peek at the blogging tool that I use for my Spanish conversation…

Posted on: March 7, 2011
By: bsawhill
With: 3 Comments

Technology as a break from learning.

The last two or three weeks of a semester are hard. Teachers are making the big, final push to the…

Posted on: January 2, 2011
By: bsawhill
With: 0 Comments

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

Conference Blather

Ryan is attending an Ed Tech conference this week and sends me this email from the venue: WHAT DOES THIS…

Posted on: July 22, 2010
By: bsawhill
With: 11 Comments

To the whiteboard!

I am lucky to work with some pretty amazing people. I am also lucky that these same people are tolerant…

Posted on: March 1, 2010
By: bsawhill
With: 0 Comments