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
The Backwards Syllabus This semester I did not create a planned, hyper-managed "if it is Tuesday we will be doing this" sort of… Posted on: March 15, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
To the whiteboard! I am lucky to work with some pretty amazing people. I am also lucky that these same people are tolerant… Posted on: March 1, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 0 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
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
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