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
Outsourcing, Learning Virtually and Fear As I mentioned in previous posts, when the economy goes sour, that is often a time when language educators and… Posted on: March 1, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Low hanging fruit http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrclean/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 O'er the past few days there has been a kerfluffle brewing over at Inside… Posted on: January 14, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 2 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
Reflections from the winter shutdown Foto Credit: lizawithaz on Flickr Winter is upon us, as was my college's requisite "Winter Shutdown," where we all go… Posted on: January 9, 2010 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
Flickrpoet and the Language Classroom I became aware of FlickrPoet via a tweet on Twitter, and have been playing around with it a bit. Here… Posted on: December 28, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
What English sounds like to non-English speakers [Snaps and thanks to Ryan and his RSS feeds for finding this gem.] Explanation: It's a 1972 song written by… Posted on: December 19, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
Twecklers in the Language Lab This morning I upgraded TweetDeck for the mac. There are a gazillion different twitter readers out there...I started using this… Posted on: December 10, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 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