Teaching Transparently: Scuba diving in 2nd year college Spanish www.flickr.com This fall we had an overabundance of enrollments in the first semester of 2nd year Spanish class. And with… Posted on: October 18, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Language Fail, American Idol style Not to be outdone, my husband (who blogs over here), shared this one with me. Oh dear. (Welcome to Saturday… Posted on: October 10, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
As seen on TV… My son shared this clip from the new TV show "Community" with me, and it made me giggle. Here is… Posted on: October 10, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Do as I say…. not as I present. I have been flipping in and out of webstreams of two conferences that had the good sense to be Ustreamed… Posted on: August 14, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
Welcome to Rust Belt Thinking I was drinking my coffee this morning and reading our local paper, The Plain Dealer, as I do every morning… Posted on: July 30, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
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… Posted on: July 26, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
The U of Maine System: Languages are essential, even if they are underenrolled The past couple of weeks I have been off the grid and in the Maine woods, living without electricity, on… Posted on: July 24, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Let the voting begin! Lexiophiles has included this blog in its annual competition for the top 100 Language Blogs in the world. Please click… Posted on: July 13, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
We've been nominated! How lovely... LLU just found out it has been nominated as one of the top 100 Language Blogs of 2009… Posted on: June 23, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
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… Posted on: June 23, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 3 Comments
