TT – Language Lab Unleashed

Teaching Acceptance through Storytelling

Readers of LLU know that I am a huge fan of the work being done by the people at Radio…

Posted on: October 11, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Using Radio Ambulante in the Spanish language classroom

This semester I discovered an astonishingly awesome audio resource: Radio Ambulante. Radio Ambulante is a Spanish-language radio program showcasing compelling…

Posted on: July 3, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Creating, Uploading, Commenting and Sharing Audio via SoundCloud

Thanks to the folks over is ds106-land, I have been introduced to the wonders of SoundCloud, a web-based sound recording…

Posted on: July 1, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Notes I jotted to myself at the end of the term

Somewhere in the post surgery end of semester haze, I jotted down some notes to myself about things I…

Posted on: June 28, 2013
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There is no mystery in grading

Each semester for the past 5 or so years, I have asked my students to write a one page self…

Posted on: June 26, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Student-centered, project-based learning…and a medical emergency

[images courtesy of The Noun Project] Readers of LLU know that I have worked over the past years to…

Posted on: June 24, 2013
By: bsawhill
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Let’s go bowling!

The purpose of education, in particular higher education, is to teach creative, intelligent, thoughtful, capable people the skills needed to…

Posted on: April 8, 2013
By: bsawhill
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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
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Tune Up and a Smack down (part 2): The gringa returns to Bogotá

Last summer I had the extraordinary good fortune to travel back in time. Okay not really, but in many ways…

Posted on: February 4, 2013
By: bsawhill
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A tune-up and a smack-down: The gringa returns to Bogotá

Readers of LLU might remember a series of blog posts I did entitled "Teaching What You Thought You Knew," in…

Posted on: August 8, 2012
By: bsawhill