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
Rethinking the role of the language textbook This semester I am teaching the second semester, second year language class for Spanish. You know the class... the… Posted on: August 7, 2012 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
A few shout outs and a woof Before the semester comes to a crashing halt, and we all go off to hibernate for a while, I wanted… Posted on: December 14, 2011 By: bsawhill
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
Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 4): El beísbol One of my not-so-secret guilty pleasures is baseball. Growing up in a family of baseball enthusiasts and long-suffering Red Sox… Posted on: August 11, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 3): Colombian Music, or how I learned to appreciate Hip Hop after 40 Foto of a sign in a buseta in Bogotá used with permission from Andreuchis I have to admit it. Prior… Posted on: August 9, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 2 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
Taking a tour of the HISP 205 class blog A few people have asked to have a peek at the blogging tool that I use for my Spanish conversation… Posted on: March 7, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
Social Networking and Octegenarians Last Thursday I had the pleasure of being the speaker for the "Third Thursday Series" at Kendal, a local community… Posted on: November 22, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments