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
The Theory-Praxis Gap: Teaching Languages with Games – Part 2 Last time I wrote about what keeps us from using games for language learning purposes more often. Now that the… Posted on: September 20, 2012 By: Felix Kronenberg With: 3 Comments
Building my ePortfolio: A Body of Evidence My colleague Sean runs a workshop and blog called "The Better Presenter." Sean has a great eye for visual design,… Posted on: September 3, 2012 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments
Building my ePortfolio: Populating Content Now that I've got the bones of my ePortfolio in place, it's time to start adding some meat. The first question… Posted on: September 2, 2012 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments
Building my ePortfolio: Choosing a Platform As I mentioned last time, it took me a while to move forward with my portfolio because the task seemed… Posted on: September 1, 2012 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments