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LLU Live #18: Interactive Fiction

During today's LLU Live Talk today we will talk about interactive fiction. More specifically, I am excited to discuss my…

Posted on: February 20, 2014
By: Felix Kronenberg
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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
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A bed for a fairy

I made mention of this activity that I did in class during Felix's LLU Live #5 about Games and…

Posted on: November 6, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Case Studies of Openness in the Language Classroom: now available!

I am thrilled to announce the publication of a book that I co-edited along with two extraordinary women ---Anna Comas…

Posted on: September 26, 2013
By: bsawhill
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An Open Assignment Bank… for Languages

LLU is a big fan of the creative work that happens at the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies…

Posted on: July 19, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Class Blogging vs the Academic Calendar

Blogging takes time: It takes time to write, time to comment, time to research other blogs and bloggers and read/…

Posted on: July 15, 2013
By: bsawhill
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SpinTX: Open and Authentic Spanish language videos for teaching and learning

I am constantly on the look-out for resources of authentic Spanish language. As I mentioned before Radio Ambulante is a…

Posted on: July 10, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Let’s go bowling!

The purpose of education, in particular higher education, is to teach creative, intelligent, thoughtful, capable people the skills needed to…

Posted on: April 8, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Say MOOC again! How MOOC mayhem might make us better teachers

The MOOCs are coming. Be very afraid. And did you hear them say that they are coming to take over…

Posted on: March 27, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Cooking with Drag Queens: Teaching Inclusion and Discovering the Limits of the Spanish Language

One of the reasons I love to teach is that I get to learn. Be it from my students or…

Posted on: March 18, 2013
By: bsawhill
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