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Using Radio Ambulante in the Spanish language classroom

This semester I discovered an astonishingly awesome audio resource: Radio Ambulante. Radio Ambulante is a Spanish-language radio program showcasing compelling…

Teaching What You Thought You Knew (Part 1): Colombia

A thousand years ago, I studied at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I went during college and…

Technology as a break from learning.

The last two or three weeks of a semester are hard. Teachers are making the big, final push to the…

Ending the semester, Lessons Learned (Part 4: Assessment)

I have thought a lot about HISP 205 since the semester ended last May. I think (often) about how I…

Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 3)

Lesson #3: Marc Prensky got it all wrong Marc Prensky's famous and yet false binary that says our students are…

Walls, Turrets, Silos… and verticality

I work in the turret of a castle-like building built in 1885. The building was scheduled for demolition several years…

Informal Assessment, Disruption & Repair: Making change happen.

March 20, 2009: Midterm assessment time. The College wants to know whether students are in peril of failing. No surprise:…

Struggling with the Syllabus

with thanks to Pisces Dreamer for the permission to use this Flickr picJanuary 31, 2009: It's the Saturday night before…

Innovation and Language Education in the Academy: A Contradiction in Terms?

[NOTE: On October 17th, I was supposed to gve the opening keynote at the MWALLT conference at Case Western Reserve…

Doodle…Sloodle…Moodle

I thought I would share a great clip I found on YouTube from Mary Ann Mengel from a Center for…