Listening Journals Developing one's listening and speaking abilities is a slow, sometimes invisible process. In a 16 week semester it sometimes feels… Posted on: October 8, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
“I don’t feel so alone anymore!” At the beginning of this semester I tried something new with our language faculty. I should mention that the beginning… Posted on: October 6, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Promoting Less Commonly Taught Languages A few years back I started a little project to support the speaking and sharing of less commonly taught languages… Posted on: October 1, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Searching for a sense of accomplishment One of the more frustrating things about learning a language is that it that sometimes it takes time to see the results… Posted on: September 29, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
Radio Ambulante in the Spanish Language Classroom: AATSP 2015 I am here in Denver giving a presentation at the AATSP conference on using Radio Ambulante in the Spanish language… Posted on: July 17, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Joining the Radio Ambulante Team I am excited to announce that I am joining the Radio Ambulante team as their Spanish Language Education Coordinator // Coordinadora de… Posted on: July 9, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
El Proyecto Personal: Creating Conversations, Taking Risks, Learning to Prepare for the World Outside the Classroom Each semester I am amazed (and also a little bit terrified) by the personal projects my students choose to define and pursue in… Posted on: July 7, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Tune In, Turn On, Make Radio: The Radioshows Summer is the time when I finally get tie up all of the loose ends that I have left scattered across… Posted on: June 18, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Teaching Listening: El equipo fantasma lesson plan Over the past month or so I have been trying to capture in words what my two students (soon to be… Posted on: February 4, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
Teaching Listening: RA episodes: Useful tags, Trigger warnings This week I created a google doc with all of the Radio Ambulante episodes that can be used in the Spanish language… Posted on: November 22, 2014 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments