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
Our WordPress Class Blogging Tool: Now Yours Too For the past 5 years, I have had the extraordinary good fortune to work with creative and talented people… Posted on: April 26, 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
What we did in class today, and no I can’t get you the notes. We are at the end of the first half of the semester, and what an extraordinary 7 weeks this has… Posted on: March 24, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Searching for blogs in all the wrong places. Part of my rationale behind asking my students to blog sometimes has to do with the blogging platform itself. I… Posted on: March 17, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment