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
Equating a Knowledge of English with Intelligence A lovely video that touches upon some important topics... the global reach and influence of the TOEFL exam, disappearing languages… Posted on: March 28, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 0 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
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
The constantly-updating syllabus I have written a bit on the idea of the Backward Syllabus on this site, and how I believe that… Posted on: March 7, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
Rethinking the syllabus… one learning outcome at a time The semester has begun and now, three weeks into it, I feel as if I can finally catch my breath… Posted on: March 1, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments