Like I said before, I love a challenge, and after my last post here it was: @sfern If you can find one of dancing Yaz, I can git-r-dun — Barbara Sawhill (@BSawhill) March 29, 2013 So thanks to Ryan, I was gifted (heh) a lovely animated image of Carl Yastrzemski doing (something close to a) dance. Add to the mix(…)
Opening Day at Fenway Park is almost here! Even the Bava is dancing with joy! Here is a link to John Johnston’s ds106 assignment that I followed. While I should have been commenting on my students’ blogs, ever the procrastinatrix, I spent an hour or so with Ryan‘s encouragement via Google Hangout (read: “Be patient!” “No, don’t(…)
This entry is part 4 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently Readers of LLU might remember a series of blog posts I did entitled “Teaching What You Thought You Knew,” in which I chronicled my struggles with the realization that I was teaching my students what I knew about Colombia, a place that I(…)
After four years of somehow not being able to find a way to get back to UMW’s Faculty Academy, I made the trek this past week with a colleague from work, Ma’ayan. Faculty Academy has had a huge warm spot in my heart…Prior to attending in 2008 I had never been to a meet up(…)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb31/6604485775 It is that wonderful time at the end of the calendar year when businesses and schools are closed and family members are home, together. Here at our house, in between the Scrabble board game smack downs and the Sudoku marathons, interspersed between the hours of sleeping, cooking and eating, I have been trying to(…)
The semester has begun and now, three weeks into it, I feel as if I can finally catch my breath and get back to writing about teaching. I had tried, and flailed, to keep up with Jim Groom and his band of merry pranksters and the #ds106 online storytelling course. I did what I could(…)
This entry is part 12 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently [note: this post has been sitting in draft mode for far too long. Bryan and Jim: I apologize. Time got away from me, but now that I am gearing up — and panicking– about preparing my own anti-syllabus yet again for HISP 205,(…)
Each winter, I use part of my holiday break for various projects I don’t normally have time to do, including stocking my freezer with homemade meals, running batches of errands that require a car (which I don’t own), and performing maintenance and upgrades (beyond the basic security updates, which I do throughout the year) for(…)
Our friends Jim Groom and Martha Burtis are creating DS106…an online course for teaching exploring digital storytelling over at UMW. The course has not even started, and already several dozen people have accessed the assignments and have started playing around. Perfect timing, I’d say, for all of us who are somewhat burnt out from our(…)