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
Blogging their scholarship In our shop we have WordPress MU installed and available for anyone (in the languages and elsewhere) who would like… Posted on: November 29, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
Watching ACTFL via Twitter This evening I received a few tweets from friends who are attending ACTFL about some interesting new tools. TAGUL: @lrosen… Posted on: November 21, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Language Labs & Teaching, then and now: every picture tells a story Our rotating headers are changing. As a way to contrast "The Language Lab" of our past and language learning today,… Posted on: November 7, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Newborn cries and language acquisition New research is suggesting that newborn babies's cries mimic the cadence of their biological mother's language. Hmmmm... do French babies… Posted on: November 6, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
ICANN, IDNs and making information accessible to all It has taken more than 7 years, and Ryan blogged about it two years ago... but it looks like non… Posted on: November 4, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
