Launching. I have two jobs at my institution: I am a language center director and I am language teacher. Both… Posted on: March 15, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 9 Comments
Hippie Dreams Can Come True: Ryan Joins DTLT @ UMW! Congratulations to Ryan -- on landing the job of his dreams -- from all of us in a certain unconventional language… Posted on: February 26, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 5 Comments
Shoveling I live in Northeast Ohio. Northeast Ohio looks a lot like this for most of the months between… Posted on: February 25, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Nature abhors a vacuum… but no more than I do The first week of the second semester is done and over... I could tell because I was face down… Posted on: February 11, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Tune Up and a Smack down (part 2): The gringa returns to Bogotá Last summer I had the extraordinary good fortune to travel back in time. Okay not really, but in many ways… Posted on: February 4, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
To the rescue…or not A thousand years ago when I taught high school Spanish, a colleague of mine and I used to make… Posted on: November 29, 2012 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Laptops in the classroom: could we please move the conversation from being punitive to productive? It is college visiting season again in our household... my younger son is now looking for the place to… Posted on: November 9, 2012 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
Midsemester meltdown This semester I am teaching second semester second year Spanish. You know the class... the one where you have to… Posted on: October 16, 2012 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
A tune-up and a smack-down: The gringa returns to Bogotá Readers of LLU might remember a series of blog posts I did entitled "Teaching What You Thought You Knew," in… Posted on: August 8, 2012 By: bsawhill
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