Learning from colleagues, making changes to my class This semester, as has been the case with other semesters gone by, I have made some changes to my conversation class. A… Posted on: March 7, 2017 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Saying goodbye to a fellow troublemaker I won't be the first person, nor the last, to mention that 2016 has been an awful year in many ways.… Posted on: December 12, 2016 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Podcasts, intensive listening practice, and water Recently I figured out a way to "marry" two of my favorite activities: swimming and listening to podcasts. Last year… Posted on: December 8, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Binge watching and language learning We are winding down into the holiday season, and that time when after all of the hullabaloo is over and… Posted on: November 24, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
#RAintheClassroom @ #ACTFL2015: the handout! Greetings from sunny San Diego. Today I had the pleasure of presenting about Radio Ambulante in the classroom (#RAintheClassroom) to… Posted on: November 20, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
#RAintheClassroom @ #ACTFL2015 This coming Friday, November 20th, at the 2015 ACTFL Annual Convention (and Expo!) I will be giving a presentation about the Radio… Posted on: November 17, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
EdTech Heresy In an effort to read more and write more, I have been checking out books from the library at a… Posted on: October 30, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Long road trips and the joy of audio I took a wee break from blogging last week during our fall break, during which I drove about 2000 miles… Posted on: October 27, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Audio self evaluations Readers of this site know that I have spent a lot of time researching ways to help students learn to listen… Posted on: October 15, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Announcing: Radio Ambulante in the Classroom Starting today, and thanks to many weeks of work with my Radio Ambulante colleagues Silvia Viñas and Clara González… Posted on: October 13, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments