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 With: 1 Comment
Mid semester evaluation: Do it. We are at the 1/2 way spot in our semester. It's midterm grading time (here the grades at midterm… Posted on: November 2, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 7 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
Reflections from the Chair Swing, Moving into the Summer It has been a busy spring, what with our infamous birds and a remarkably rough and tumble college admission process… Posted on: June 10, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 0 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
Teaching outside of the textbook and inside of the museum The lesson: Understand how to form and use comparisons of equality and comparisons of inequality. Figure out the superlative and… Posted on: December 8, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 8 Comments
Why I teach. My job is a language center director first and foremost, but the opportunity to teach language classes gives me a… Posted on: October 18, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 3) Lesson #3: Marc Prensky got it all wrong Marc Prensky's famous and yet false binary that says our students are… Posted on: June 23, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 2) Lesson # 2: It's not about you: actually, it's always been about them I believe that before you apply any… Posted on: June 23, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Welcome to the free fall February 1, 2009:I have spent the day crafting a document that ended up being less of a step by step… Posted on: February 1, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments