Why taking attendance doesn’t matter Classes began here last Tuesday. On Monday the fotocopier was whizzing away, printing out syllabi at a mad clip (we… Posted on: September 14, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
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
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
What English sounds like to non-English speakers [Snaps and thanks to Ryan and his RSS feeds for finding this gem.] Explanation: It's a 1972 song written by… Posted on: December 19, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
Digital Storytelling and Language Learning Just a note to sing the praises of two wonderful and simple tools for digital storytelling and to explain how… Posted on: November 30, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
Newborn cries and language acquisition New research is suggesting that newborn babies's cries mimic the cadence of their biological mother's language. Hmmmm... do French babies… Posted on: November 6, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 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
Language Fail, American Idol style Not to be outdone, my husband (who blogs over here), shared this one with me. Oh dear. (Welcome to Saturday… Posted on: October 10, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
Ending the semester, Lessons Learned (Part 4: Assessment) I have thought a lot about HISP 205 since the semester ended last May. I think (often) about how I… Posted on: July 26, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments