Starting October 3rd (tomorrow!): LLU Live Back in the day, the LLU crew organized, broadcast, and recorded a podcast series covering the intersections between language learning… Posted on: October 2, 2013 By: Ryan Brazell With: 1 Comment
Nature abhors a vacuum… but no more than I do The first week of the second semester is done and over... I could tell because I was face down… Posted on: February 11, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Remain calm This sign was on the door to my building the first week of class. I took the picture, I chuckled,… Posted on: November 2, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 2): Colombian Film HISP 205 is a conversation class. As the teacher, my goal for the inclass portion was that whatever I brought… Posted on: July 26, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
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
Technology as a break from learning. The last two or three weeks of a semester are hard. Teachers are making the big, final push to the… Posted on: January 2, 2011 By: bsawhill 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
Outsourcing, Learning Virtually and Fear As I mentioned in previous posts, when the economy goes sour, that is often a time when language educators and… Posted on: March 1, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 2 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
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