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
The toughest lecture I'm going to give a lecture today that basically is the toughest one I've ever had to give, and for… Posted on: December 30, 2010 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments
Oh Holly Holiday, You Got it -All- Wrong Time for a confession: I watch Glee. And I love it. Yes, yes I know in real life they are… Posted on: November 23, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Artisanal education and the illusion of support. I absolutely dread calling tech support, and will do just about anything to avoid it, including spend three days with… Posted on: November 20, 2010 By: Ryan Brazell With: 1 Comment
Low hanging fruit http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrclean/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 O'er the past few days there has been a kerfluffle brewing over at Inside… Posted on: January 14, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
VoiceThread as Final Exam (Original FotoZach Hawkins on Flickr)The end of the semester has come and gone. Grades have been tallied and entered. The… Posted on: January 9, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
Twecklers in the Language Lab This morning I upgraded TweetDeck for the mac. There are a gazillion different twitter readers out there...I started using this… Posted on: December 10, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Blogging their scholarship In our shop we have WordPress MU installed and available for anyone (in the languages and elsewhere) who would like… Posted on: November 29, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 4 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